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...examining normative reasoning in a religious context and those engaging in a descriptive examination of the roles that religion plays today and has historically played—can be readily accommodated in other categories.” Harvard students are famous for allowing certain categories of learning outside their comfort zones to slip into obscurity—witness English concentrators filing into “The Magic of Numbers”—but this should not happen to religion...

Author: By Alexandra A. Petri | Title: Fasting and Prayer | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...Good Today,” she replied, “Yeah, I probably would.” Although the failure of the Everything’s Jake store may indicate that fewer people are now buying into what the famous stick figures have to say, some customers take comfort in Jake’s encouraging words. “I like what it says,” declared Toledo’s mother, Maria. “I like what that means...

Author: By Gus T. Hickey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Life Isn’t Good | 3/4/2009 | See Source »

...insurance doesn't cover it. And she winds up figuring out, with the help of an attorney, that if she sues her obstetrician for wrongful birth, she might end up with a payout that will allow her to take care of Willow for the rest of her life in comfort. The catch is that she has to stand up in court and say, "If I had known that Willow was going to have this disease, I would have terminated the pregnancy." And that's a very real part of a wrongful birth suit. No parent I interviewed for this book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Author Jodi Picoult | 3/3/2009 | See Source »

...medicine who worked closely with Kim as associate chief of the division of global health equity at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Kim’s efforts have spearheaded movements to increase awareness of health concerns in developing countries, bringing medical researchers out of their comfort zone and into the field...

Author: By Alexander R. Konrad, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HMS Prof To Lead Dartmouth | 3/3/2009 | See Source »

...bigger question is how well she will be able to work with lawmakers, who are already well on their way developing plans to extend coverage and reduce health-care costs. But that job, like that of managing the internal White House deliberations, will place DeParle squarely in her comfort zone, not in front of television cameras but in backrooms wrestling with the extraordinarily complex details of remaking a broken health-delivery system. "We're going to get to work," announced Obama as soon as DeParle had finished her brief remarks on Monday. And then the new health czar walked away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Health Czar: Behind the Scenes but Leading the Charge | 3/3/2009 | See Source »

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