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Despite the lack of clarity, Gomes was optimistic, saying that in his decades on the Faculty, more than one period of financial pressure had been weathered without heavy involvement by the professoriate...
...responding to a decision that had been made quite suddenly by a handful of activist judges on the California Supreme Court. California has always been at the frontier of gay rights, and the state may have been well on its way toward ratifying same-sex marriage statewide. But the lack of patience on the part of gay marriage proponents sent the message to California voters that popular opinion was unimportant. It is little wonder voters sought a constitutional ban in the state, as it was seemingly the only means to make their voice heard...
...Since then no other solutions have emerged. On the contrary, the problem has only gotten worse, with the number of uninsured Americans rising, along with soaring health-care costs. Fully 15% of the nation's economy now goes toward health care, while nearly 50 million Americans lack coverage. All the while, Daschle, now 60, has continued to work on and speak out for health-care issues...
Toilets are a privilege that nearly half the world lacks. At least 2.6 billion people around the planet have no access to a toilet - and that doesn't just mean that they don't have a nice, heated indoor bathroom. It means they have nothing - not a public toilet, not an outhouse, not even a bucket. They defecate in public, contaminating food and drinking water, and the disease toll due to unsanitized human waste is staggering. George notes that 80% of the world's illnesses are caused by fecal matter: A single gram of feces can contain 10 million viruses...
...happens later, according to Edelman, when the initial trial fails and the physician doesn't rethink the diagnosis or run the proper tests - and instead addresses the problem by using different drugs. "We need to pay attention to what symptoms mean and patients' response to treatment. We cannot accept lack of responsiveness to medication. It could be a misdiagnosis," Edelman says...