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...herald of light, and the bearer of love, till the stock of the Puritans die.” So go the concluding strains of our valedictory anthem, “Fair Harvard,” which echoed earlier this academic year through Tercentary Theatre on the occasion of Drew Gilpin Faust’s inauguration as university president...
...worldwide. Since, it has taken hold in the FLDS community because of intermarriage. "If you have two parents with the gene," Tarby says, "you are going to have a one-in-four chance of having a child afflicted with it." Depending on the severity of the disorder, children may die in childhood or may survive into early adulthood; if a person who has developed the disorder goes on to have a child, his or her chances of passing it on are one in two. But diagnosing the condition is difficult and requires extremely careful testing, the doctor says. His research...
...quality of health care] doesn’t mean that there are no differences,” Billings said. “It’s just wrong. The quality of care can vary enormously for people—it’s just that they still die...
According to the report, over 70 percent of Americans say that they would prefer to die at home, but just one fifth of deaths in Massachusetts occurred in homes in 1997. While there has been some legislative action to increase end-of-life options, the effect has been minimal. By 2005, the number had only risen to 22 percent...
...talk about what had happened, but I did not join them, because that would have accomplished nothing. I wanted to be alone.” After her second year, she leaves the U.S. for Canada to be with her ailing uncle, a Tamil Tiger who was allowed to die with his family because of his family’s loyalty to the Tiger cause.The reader comes to love Yalini, with her appreciation for the sacrifices her parents have made for her, her pure childhood passion for books (“Sometimes I sat for hours, poring over the medical dictionary?...