Word: customs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...history through ruthless ambition and sheer willpower; Loida is scholarly and low key, the author of three textbooks, and deeply religious. She is perhaps the only CEO of a multinational company who greets visitors with a hug rather than a handshake. He smoked power-broker cigars, traveled in a custom jet and kept a Louis XIV-style office suite in Paris as a pit stop. She finds little use for such captain-of-industry trappings. After consolidating power, the wealthy widow sold off the limousines and the private jet and dispensed with other perks. While Reg was a master...
This week, at the annual meeting of the American College of Rheumatology in Orlando, Florida, scientists will announce not one but three experimental treatments for rheumatoid arthritis. Each is thoroughly modern, using genetically engineered proteins or custom-designed antibodies to combat the disease at its source, blocking the wayward steps leading to the body's self-destruction before further damage occurs...
...arthritis works. The problem starts when, for reasons no one fully understands, a few misguided T cells incite other immune-system cells called macrophages to attack the joints. The approach favored by IDEC Pharmaceuticals, a biotech company in San Diego, is to target all active T cells with a custom-made antibody that can temporarily knock the immune cells out of commission. Although this antibody treatment cannot distinguish between normal and misbehaving T cells, the gambit has proved successful. More than half the 122 patients in one study showed significant improvement without debilitating side effects. "We literally had patients dancing...
When President Lyndon Johnson created affirmative action, he surely wasn't thinking, "Now I believe I'll profoundly subvert the spirit of the Civil Rights Act, the crowning achievement of my life, which became law only a year ago." Instead, the idea was that custom, ethnocentrism, poverty, bad schools, old-boy networking and a host of other factors would conspire against the new civil rights of African Americans and any real socioeconomic advancement. So L.B.J. compelled government and its contractors to look a little harder for blacks to fill job openings. Thousands of private organizations instituted affirmative-action plans...
...your commitment to catch-and-release fishing come with age?" I asked. John, who's written with great distinction about fishing, always releases what he catches, a custom I consider contrary to the laws of nature. ("If a striped bass caught you, John, he wouldn't even think about releasing...