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According to The Daily Pennsylvanian, the daily newspaper on campus, the Human Rights League letter argues that the policy "does not inhibit the free exchange of scholarly ideas throughout the university, since it merely restricts certain behavior intended only to inflict direct injury...
This dilemma has troubled RUS leaders ever since: Does an effort towards broadening its membership inhibit the group from being able to take stances on controversial issues? Will RUS, in its effort to represent all, pursue an agenda so broad that it doesn't represent anyone...
While fear of offending others may inhibit honest discussion of race, a misguided belief that racism doesn't exist here can be even more harmful. While many people believe that the KKK thrives "out there" in some uncivilized part of the country few are as willing to believe that racism exists in the Camelot of Harvard. Yet I was shocked by what was written on some desks in a Harvard library--things that I would expect to find on the walls of my high school's bathrooms...
...think the actual finding directly affects drug development," said Bischoff, "but the more we know about capillary formation, the more it might lead to drugs that might help or inhibit that process, which are both needed...
...precious time for patients. In the original test-tube trials, reported last week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the drug appeared to prevent some, but not all, HIV-infected cells from producing any new copies of the virus. Thalidomide apparently accomplished this feat by inhibiting a naturally occurring substance called tumor necrosis factor (TNF). Its purpose in the body is to fight cancer and infections, and a side effect of its activity is severe weight loss. In people who are infected with HIV, for some unknown reason, TNF also promotes production of the virus. "We thought...