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...therapy may be justified in cases of extreme shortness, they see a dangerous potential for abuse. Notes Dr. Myron Genel, professor of pediatrics at Yale University School of Medicine: "The question of who should and who shouldn't get growth-hormone therapy is a hornet's nest. The criteria are no longer clear." Many parents have been pressuring doctors to try hormone therapy on children who are not abnormally short. One physician recalls a father who asked if his tall son could be made even taller so he would be sure to make the Notre Dame football team. Says...
...students' main contention in the suit is that the Law School's failure to use a set of objective criteria in evaluating prospective faculty members biases the process against women and minorities...
...subject matter. TF's and CA's at Harvard almost always know their subject thoroughly and are talented thinkers, but a student is just as likely to have one skilled in teaching as having an incoherent one, so that it seems that teaching ability is not even a criteria in selecting section leaders...
More important criteria, she said, are the "scientific excellence and leadership capability" needed to handle the problems the NIH will face over the next decade...
...nominees was done "without my knowledge or concurrence," Sullivan defends the White House practice on the ground that a jobholder's views should be in line with those of the President. "I will not guarantee those questions will not be asked," he says. "But they're not criteria whereby someone is selected." While passions cool, the search for an NIH director has been temporarily suspended...