Word: faithfully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...test gene treatments on human subjects as early as possible. No matter how promising a laboratory result is, clinical trials with real patients are more likely to pique Wall Street's interest. The risk is that expectations will be raised so high that the public--and investors--will lose faith in the technology when reversals occur. Flossie Wong-Staal, a molecular biologist at the University of California at San Diego, says that because "clinical trials, so far, have very little promise of curing patients," she prefers to think of her attempts to use gene therapy to boost the immune systems...
...Saturday morning. a few parishioners of bustling and growing St. Joseph Catholic Church in suburban Baltimore, Maryland, gather in a member's living room to discuss their Roman Catholic faith. The people from St. Joe's, a parish of 10,000, speak reverentially about Pope John Paul II. He is a familiar figure to them, and at last they may be able to catch a glimpse of him in person. A long and rich history hovers in the background. Founded as a colonial refuge for English Catholics in 1634, Maryland later served as headquarters of the first diocese...
...drift of the conversation tugs participants away from the shores of dispute and toward the flow of shared satisfactions in their Catholic faith. Jerry Trees, 56, a financial consultant and chair of the parish pro-life committee, says, "Rome presents the truth, the repository of faith with a history of 2,000 years, and puts things in perspective." Francis Pugh, parish council vice chair and a counsel in the state attorney general's office, offers with a laugh his view of salvation and eternal life: "I have this image that when we go to heaven we'll be greeted with...
...have yet to see a cogent call for welfare reform that doesn't contain at least one serious ellipsis in its logic Usually, however--and unlike Whitman--their authors at least try to conceal such leaps of faith. --James Grimmelmann...
Third year law student Teresa A. Gonslaves said her faith in the jury system has not been shaken...