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...broader effort to force reform. Though Republicans are so far cool to any sweeping legislation, some more narrowly targeted proposals are picking up bipartisan support. One such bill, introduced in February, would set a "prudent layperson" standard for emergency-room treatment: an insurer must pay for any condition a layman reasonably fears is an emergency, even if it turns out to be a false alarm...
...California, until members of his congregation, opposed to some of his policies, "outed" him in 1990. He had been closeted till then and involved in a seven-year relationship with another man, which ended prior to the rupture with his congregation. He left the clergy but remained a Presbyterian layman, pressing for change. Now executive director of the California Council of Churches, Anderson was buoyed for a while by allies across the country, even as liberal and conservative Presbyterians threatened secession over the issue. Then the slow-motion vote took place...
...beloved in the public imagination (between Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker). The Empire Strikes Back is probably the most important of the films for the Star Wars enthusiast (largely because of what it reveals of the world in which the saga takes place) and the least accessible to the layman. It is not the one to see first...
...This research establishes the genotype to phenotype relations or, in layman terms, how [the gene] does...its dirty work," Selkoe said...
...Jesus Seminar said in its Santa Rosa, California, meeting, "Belief in the Resurrection of Jesus does not depend upon what may or may not have happened to his corpse." But your report noted that in the eyes of a Lutheran layman, the group "said the Resurrection of Jesus Christ was not essential to the faith; and that, in fact, the Resurrection may not have occurred at all." In my view, your readership is ill served by the inability to understand the difference between these statements. I find that most readers do grasp this distinction quite easily, and many appreciate...