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...some U.S. school districts are trying a businesslike solution: warranties. For periods of one to three years, 68 schools in Prince George's County, Md.; Plymouth-Carver, Mass.; St. Joseph, Mo.; Montrose County, Colo.; Harlem, Ill.; and dozens of other districts guarantee defect-free graduates to prospective employers. These small districts may soon be joined by the nation's largest, New York City, where schools chancellor Joseph Fernandez has proposed a pilot program starting as early as this fall...
That question is at the heart of a growing debate among scientists, 200 of whom gathered this month at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., to air the issue. Traditionally, researchers have published their findings in medical journals, like the New England Journal of Medicine or the Journal of the American Medical Association. Supporters insist that this approach helps ensure credibility by allowing time to weed out sloppy science. Editors send submitted papers to outside scientists for comment, a system known as peer review. But the process can be lengthy. Between the time a paper is first offered...
...most places, the idea has met with anger, outrage -- and defeat. Last fall a proposal in rural Talbot County, Md., to make condoms available in high schools failed to pass the school board by just one vote. In prosperous Marin County, Calif., Tamalpais High School abandoned a plan for condom distribution after a coalition of pro-life supporters and parents filed suit to stop it. Los Angeles' pilot reproductive-health project overcame vigorous opposition only when the city agreed to a parental-consent feature; about 75% of parents at the three participating schools have acceded...
...examine the claims up close, and they saw no miracles -- at least not yet. The Chinese doctor who developed the medication, Dr. Xu Rong Xiang, flew to the U.S. for the first time to present his findings at major burn centers in New York City, Boston and Bethesda, Md. The reception was not as warm as he might have hoped. Said Dr. Cleon Goodwin, director of the respected New York Hospital Burn Center: "Dozens of magic potions have been put forward as miracle cures in the past 30 years. Not one has panned out. So naturally we are skeptical...
...bittersweet ending to the Harvard men's water polo season this weekend at the Eastern Water Polo League Championship in Annapolis, Md...