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...That elegant mode of communication, a combination of signs and gestures, is not based on English. Thus the English reading level of the average deaf adult at the completion of formal education is usually placed somewhere between the third and the eighth grade. Says New York social-services counselor Donna Leshne: "The knowledge base is lacking. With all the ways we have of transmitting information, they're just not receiving...
...furor over ethics has some Clintonites treading very lightly. Health and Human Services head DONNA SHALALA wanted to throw a routine book party for her friend Madeleine Kunin, deputy secretary of Education, who's published her memoirs. Even though the do was to be held at a friend's house, Shalala got clearance from an HHS ethics officer, sternly forbade book-selling at the party, wrote the invitation herself and stood in line at Kinko's for copies. All this to thwart any criticism that either Shalala or Kunin were using their connections for gain...
...Donna J. Moore...
...work did not undermine the evidence of the value of lumpectomies. His research was part of a much larger study, and when his statistics are removed, the conclusions do not change. And other studies have had the same results. Even with such assurances, many patients were still uneasy. Said Donna Brogan, an Emory University biostatistician who had a lumpectomy in 1986: "The whole research enterprise operates on trust among scientists. When someone betrays that trust, it is upsetting...
Graduate Student Coordinator for the Mathematics Department Donna R. D'Fini says some of the problems students have with their section leaders result from undergraduates' prejudices...