Word: jeffrey
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Stunning the university community he has led for the past two years, Cornell University President Jeffrey S. Lehman announced earlier this month plans to step down from his post. The president said his resignation comes in the wake of differences with the school’s Board of Trustees, but declined to explain precisely what those differences entailed...
...human to the confines of an artificial life-support system is an unethical and deplorable act of modern medicine. It is time man accepts the fact that as a life form, he is finite, and that the quality of life, not the quantity, is what should be valued. Jeffrey Reese Davis Chattanooga, Tenn...
...face. Though it is far more likely that the U.S. would use its handful of quick-reaction shock troops rather than any of its 17 active Army divisions or 13 Navy carrier battle groups, special operations still receive less than 1% of the Pentagon's $300 billion budget. Warns Jeffrey Record, a respected expert on military affairs: "I have no doubt that low-intensity conflict is the sort of scenario we'll be fighting in coming decades. What I do doubt is that we'll be prepared...
...drug was especially effective in preventing colds caused by rhinoviruses, the largest single group of cold-causing viruses and the kind blamed for most of the colds brought home by schoolchildren in autumn. "They are responsible for more than half of colds in the fall and spring," says Dr. Jeffrey Stritar, director of antiviral clinical research at Schering-Plough Corp. in New Jersey. Schering, which funded both studies, is one of several companies using genetic-engineering techniques to manufacture alpha-interferon...
...calm the waters, B.Y.U. President Jeffrey Holland went to Israel and pledged last August that any Mormon teacher or student who proselytizes will be sent home. Church President Ezra Taft Benson last week wrote to Kollek, promising that Mormons will honor all Israeli laws. These commitments have not mollified Rabbi Moshe Porush of Yad 1'Achim (A Hand to the Brothers), an antimissionary organization that is spearheading the protests. He points to a 1979 Mormon handbook on how to convert Jews, which the church says is no longer...