Word: holmeses
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"Twelve disorders that I see here are founder-gene defects carried by the dozen families that established this population 300 years ago," observes Dr. D. Holmes Morton, 47, a pediatrician and geneticist who gave up an academic career to work among the Amish. One of those diseases, he has discovered...
Meanwhile, Morton's clinic has become a model for rural health care, reducing hospitalization for the disorders to one-tenth their historic rates. The Amish and Mennonites who use the clinic do not buy medical insurance or subscribe to Medicare, but instead depend on family and community for help. Says...
We agree there is an urgent need to clear land mines. In fact, the Clinton Administration has led the world's humanitarian demining initiative and has provided training and assistance to 14 countries to help develop indigenous, self-sustaining humanitarian demining programs. U.S. government agencies have spent more than $137...
The federal takeover has roiled the city's always testy political waters, inspiring loud public protests. So loud that Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District's nonvoting representative in Congress, did an about-face: after first calling the deal a "big win," she denounced it as "too high a price." Meanwhile...
If the most basic function of government is to secure the liberty and property of the governed, a government that can't even implement the rule of law is hardly worthy of the name. So, at least, writes Stephen Holmes in his American Prospect article "What Russia Teaches Us Now...