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Studies may also provide clues about patterns of growth and differentiation in skin cells. A 1989 study by Carolyn C. Compton, associate professor of pathology at the Medical School and a pathologist at MGH, found that the skin of patients treated with cultured skin grafts up to five years ago had developed lower layer skin, or dermis, rather than developing scar tissue...
Other Korean shopkeepers donated more than $20,000 to help keep the boycotted owner's business going during the protest. "We don't make trouble first," says Do Hyun Chung, who owns a liquor store in Compton. "We try to make money first." The 31-year-old merchant came to America nearly seven years ago with scarcely a penny in his pocket, in the hope of finding what he refers to, without irony or embarrassment, as "the American Dream." The previous owner of his store was shot dead by a robber. For Chung and his wife...
...lazy to go to work for themselves. "In America you get what you work for," says Sue Hee. "If you don't get it, then you didn't work for it." The rage that African Americans direct at Korean merchants, says Wayne Gibson, a black barber in Compton, stems from a feeling of exploitation and lack of respect. "It seems everybody's just trying to get over on the residents of Compton without giving anything back," he says. "That's where the hostility comes in. So the people out here resent these immigrants getting a leg up on them...
...discourse began with a lie, so the confirmation process itself became mired in evasions, half-truths and bullying. Even the N.A.A.C.P., which opposed Thomas, succumbed. Despite its dedication to equality and free expression, the national leadership in Washington threatened officers and members of the Compton, Calif., branch with expulsion because they endorsed Thomas...