Word: heart
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Life, Liberty and a Dignified End I thank you for your essay "Dying Together" [Aug. 3]. I find Sir Edward Downes' decision to end his life perfectly rational and objective. To live only because your heart and lungs still work seems to me an inadequate justification for longevity. John Mulholland, ALPHARETTA...
...Life, Liberty and a Dignified End I thank you for your essay "Dying Together" [Aug. 3]. I find Sir Edward Downes' decision to end his life perfectly rational and objective. To live only because your heart and lungs still work seems to me an inadequate justification for longevity. John Mulholland, Alpharetta...
...that pattern of categorization that makes possible the approval of drugs like Bidil, a heart failure drug that became the first U.S. medication to be approved and marketed expressly for black people, in 2005. But after approval, a deeper look at the research showed that clinical trials of Bidil - a combination of two generic heart drugs - involved only self-described African Americans, and that the drug was not useful for all blacks and very useful for some whites. In other words, the utility of the first race-based drug was not defined by race...
...being internationally recognized for all of them. This will likely no longer hold true. And even though the value of resume padding has declined significantly, you’ll still unfathomably sign up for all sorts of extracurriculars that you have no actual interest in. Your environmentally conscious heart will sob at the absurd amount of (useless) fliers you receive...
...both Harvard’s first minority and first female Dean of the College. In a 2004 article in The Black Studies Reader, she described herself as “a Black, lesbian, feminist, writer, scientist, historian of science, and activist.” Taking her minority status to heart, she chose Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. and Stephanie Robinson—an African-American couple that teaches at Harvard Law School—as Winthrop House’s new masters when the previous House masters stepped down. But some students have complained about Hammonds’ lack of transparency...