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Critics of these trials--and there are many--complain that they violate the first principle of medicine: do no harm. Surgery, even sham surgery, is never risk-free. Doeschner says his doctors told him that he might get the short end of the double-blind stick and warned him before asking for his consent that even a fake operation could leave him "a vegetable...
Medina says students are typically kind when complaining. "It's understandable that people will complain because we offer a service, and we do our best," he says, adding that customer response helps improve service...
Daisy A. Stanton '00 is one student who called the Dorm Crew office to complain. When she and her roommates moved into a Claverly Hall room that had been occupied last semester, she was disappointed to find that Dorm Crew had not come...
...thorniest problem is those 383,000 miles of timber roads that crisscross the national forests. "They are the heart of a lot of controversy," says Marty Hayden, director of policy for the Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund. Environmentalists complain that the roads, cut for the timber companies and maintained by the Forest Service, are degrading watersheds, filling streams with silt and subdividing wildlife habitats. "It is simply time to stop logging our national forests," says Sierra Club executive director Carl Pope...
...been raised too high? Some teachers and parents complain that the tests are too exhaustive--and exhausting--for young students. The Massachusetts test clocked in at 16 hours, spread over several weeks. Tina Yalen, an eighth-grade civics teacher, gave her opinion of the Virginia test: "Some of it looked like Trivial Pursuit to me." More worrisome is how a 10-year-old will react if his or her result is branded with a scarlet F. Says Harvard's Reville: "An overload of negative feedback runs the risk that students are going to shut down and not make an effort...