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...have discovered that glial cells can also act a lot like the mast cells of the skin, producing inflammatory cytokines that call additional immune cells into action. "The glial cells are trying to return the brain to a normal state," explains Linda Van Eldik, a neurobiologist at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. "But for some reason, in neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's, the process seems to be out of control. You get chronic glial activation, which results in an inflammatory state...
KIPP was born in 1994, the brainchild of “Teach for America” alumni Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin. It started as a program for fifth-graders at Houston’s Garcia Elementary School. In 1995, the first KIPP-only schools opened in Houston and the South Bronx...
Where he can and must make distinctions is in the personal circumstances of the deceased. Feinberg's actuarial tables show that a 30-year-old decedent with a wife, a child and a stockbroker's $80,000 annual salary will suffer $2,521,248 in economic losses. But life isn't a statistical table. The stockbroker's death meant more lost income than a window washer's, but what if the window washer cared for a mentally retarded child? How much should his family be compensated for lost services...
...roughly 650 that have arrived show a dizzying array of exceptional details, such as complicated medical conditions, psychological problems, dependent parents and spouses who are now the lone child-care provider and have yet to return to work. In the days before the first awards were handed out, Feinberg, who usually sleeps four hours a night, was down to just three, fretting over the fact that the families will receive his judgments not just as a payout but as an epitaph for their loved ones. "It's very, very important that I be fair," he says...
...Feinberg issued his first award, $1.04 million to the family of an unmarried recent college graduate who earned $60,000 a year and died at the World Trade Center. The family's attorney, Roberta Gordon, said that her clients were not happy. They could never be happy. But they thought that Feinberg's award was "eminently fair." One down, 3,199 cases...