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...Planned Parenthood clinic in Des Moines, Iowa, they are known simply as "the M&M trials" because of the two drugs involved: mifepristone and misoprostol. But the breezy nickname fails to convey either the scientific significance or the social controversy surrounding the U.S. clinical trials of the so-called abortion pill. Although an estimated 150,000 women in Europe have used mifepristone (known there by its brand name, RU 486), the threat of consumer boycotts by antiabortion organizations discouraged Roussel Uclaf, the drug's European manufacturer, from marketing the pills in America. Instead, the company eventually agreed...
There are indeed scholars who have a remarkable gift for teaching--men and women who can convey the complexities of their fields with a clarity only they have mastered. For the most part though, talent in a subject and talent to teach that subject are entirely different things. The administration blatantly disregards this distinction. As The Crimson noted, committees simply "consider who is at the top of the field...
...They can express and convey information and express their opinions, but that's as far as I'd go," says Thomas N. Bisson, history department chair...
...order for a photograph to convey a human truth, the photographer must first form a human bond with his subject. To portray the troubled youths featured in this week's story about teenage runaways, photographer Steve Liss spent three weeks in Hollywood immersed in their milieu of drugs, prostitution, disease and violence. His day started when theirs did, sometime after noon, when they filtered onto the streets from the abandoned buildings where they had spent the night. "I'd glue myself to a small group, some days shooting picture after picture and others just watching and listening," says Liss. "Gradually...
Truth be told, Branagh does not seem quite fitting for the role. While he executes Shakespeare with finesse and a startling accessibility, his chubby-cheeked, doughy countenance is a mismatch for the role. True, he manages to convey the youth of Henry but when the role demands the handsome, strong-jaw-boned fierceness of a young firebrand, he is somewhat limited by the wimpiness of his looks. In spite of these handicaps, however, he admirably manages to convince us of his common humanity--he is one with his men and his dedication to Mother England...