Word: lieber
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...reported that even women who drink moderately may have a 30% to 50% greater chance than nondrinkers of developing breast cancer. Heavy drinking among men and women alike has been linked to cancer of the liver, lung, pancreas, colon and rectum. In October a team led by Dr. Charles Lieber, a leading alcoholism researcher at the Bronx Veterans Administration Medical . Center in New York City, reported that it had isolated a possible link between alcohol and cancer in humans. The culprit appears to be a member of the family of enzymes called cytochrome P-450s. In the presence of alcohol...
...through the black community collecting fingerprints would eventually provoke a controversy. No matter how "voluntary" the program, the notion of methodically asking people who were not individually suspect to submit to an intrusive procedure simply because they were black raised some worrisome racial and civil-liberties issues. Said James Lieber, executive director of the Pittsburgh branch of the American Civil Liberties Union: "Blacks must relinquish their privacy or become suspect." N.A.A.C.P. Executive Director Benjamin Hooks said it looked like "police power run amuck." William Penn, director of N.A.A.C.P.'s local branches, feared an "open season on black people...
...Lieber and Baumgartner are not especially afraid of anything, but then again, neither seems in any hurry to change the slavish life most people in the West are forced to settle for. Let us perform a single thought experiment. If Errol Louis had been born in the Eastern bloc, it is probable that he would have become exactly what he is now: a courageous dissenter, exposing the lies that oppression and privilege dress up in. If Lieber and Baumgartner had been born in the Eastern bloc, it is likely that they would have become exactly what they...
...West, red-baiting makes for an easy and successful career. But if Western democracy does have any points of advantage over Eastern authoritarianism, it is because heroes like Errol Louis have fought to speak the truth, while yes-men like Lieber and Baumgartner have been content to repeat the slogans that other people have taught them...
...Errol Louis had been in Prague in 1968, he would have been throwing Molotov cocktails at Soviet tanks. If Lieber and Baumgartner had been bright young apparatchiks fresh out of Moscow University, would they have been draft resisters? I doubt...