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...could pretend that the problem was fixing itself. Health-care costs were being held in check. Private employers offered more and better health care to attract workers. The states were becoming more generous and creative in taking care of lower-income working people, who most often fall into the crack between private insurance and public-assistance programs...
...often by age 45. One 33-year-old woman knew all too well what the disease does to a brain--and a family. Her father died at 42; her sister began declining at 38 and within five years needed full-time care; and her brother's memory began to crack at 35. A professional geneticist, the woman also knew what it would take for her and her husband to have a healthy child. By prescreening her eggs for the defective gene, doctors were able to insert only healthy embryos during in-vitro fertilization. Last week the Journal of the American...
...President Lawrence H. Summers has come to Harvard with very undemocratic beliefs and is pushing hard to diminish the power students and other members of the community have to impact policy. He announced his sit-in policy without any input from students, just one step in an attempt to crack down on and discourage protest at Harvard. The advisory board on the selection of the next dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences does not include students. Summers has metaphorically referred to the relationship between students and Harvard as similar to that between car buyers and General Motors, rather...
...their own promotion, see things differently. At the behest of the U.S., Taiwanese police last week tracked down the computer servers that housed Movie88 and, in a highly publicized raid, shut the site down. Authorities said Tan was clearly breaking Taiwanese copyright laws. "This is Taiwan's year to crack down on intellectual property theft," says Lu Wen-hsiang, a senior official in the Ministry of Economic Affairs...
...could pretend that the problem was fixing itself. Health-care costs were being held in check. Private employers offered more and better health care to attract workers. The states were becoming more generous and creative in taking care of lower-income working people, who most often fall into the crack between private insurance and public-assistance programs...