Word: columbia
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...Mark Sauer, director of the fertility program at New York City's Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, admits that the uproar "speaks to ageism and a double standard in society." Though the cutoff in his program is 55 (there's no cutoff for men), he had treated the woman earlier, believing she was 53. Now that she has given birth, he says, "I'm happy with the outcome, but I can't endorse the practice because of the risks. We see serious obstetrical complications in more than half the women over the age of 45." But if a woman accepts...
Caroline Heilbrun, renowned 1scholar and professor Emeritus at Columbia, had a different kind of praise for the committee...
...CROSS THE NATION, STUDENTS had already risen up on such campuses as Columbia, Berkeley, Northwestern and University of Michigan. On the afternoon of April 9, 1969, it was Harvard's turn. Filled with that '60s mixture of anger, rage and disillusionment--much of it prompted by the continued war in Vietnam--about 300 students seized University Hall, physically pushing some of the deans down stairways and out the doors. Before dawn, President Pusey unilaterally summoned the Cambridge police to force their way into the Hall and get the students out. Donned in helmets and equipped with nightsticks and tear...
Wald did graduate work at Columbia University, then served as a National Research Council Fellow from 1932-33 in Berlin, where he began the research that would become the foundation for his later scientific endeavors...
...attorneys (including Johnnie Cochran) argued that the law unfairly targets blacks, while letting suburban whites--the primary consumers of powder cocaine off with a lesser sentence for carrying the same amount of the drug. The case involved a black man, Duane Edwards, who was arrested in the District of Columbia in 1995 for selling an undercover agent 126.6 grams of crack for $3,400. In rejecting Edwards' argument last December, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said that Congress was trying to purposely discriminate in setting greater penalties for possession of crack. Edwards' hope of securing a less severe sentence...