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...tournaments (he recited it from memory and I had to replay it three times on my recorder just to get it right): “The United States Federal Government should substantially reduce the size of its nuclear weapons arsenal and/or substantially reduce or restrict the role and/or mission of its nuclear weapons arsenal.” I asked him, jokingly, if he could tell me some of the arguments that he uses (or would that compromise his position...
...Wertheim College is not the first U.S. medical school to train community-based primary-care physicians. (Florida State University's medical school, for example, lets its third-year students do clinical work in rural areas of the state's Panhandle.) But it's considered the first to make that mission its raison d'être. Under its NeighborhoodHELP (Health Education Learning Program) scheme, which will forge permanent relationships with underserved zones of Miami, students are assigned a household along with counterparts from fields like nursing, social work and public health. Rock developed the idea with FIU's Dr. Pedro Greer...
...Harvard Corporation—the University’s chief governing body—is poised to discuss the task force’s recommendations and to consider the task force’s mission statement for the libraries at their next meeting, according to Harvard University Library Director Robert C. Darnton...
...offenders, the Atlanta-based Southern Center for Human Rights has sued the state over its residency and employment restrictions, including the ban on faith-based volunteering. "There are serious constitutional problems in banning someone from going to church, not to mention this runs counter to the church's mission of inclusion, hospitality and redemption," says Sara Totonchi, the center's associate director...
...Nichols credits religion with keeping him out of trouble. He had attended church sporadically before he went to prison; now he goes twice a day and three times on Sundays. "Church helps me to not live my old ways," says Nichols, who currently attends New Life Mission Church in Fayetteville, N.C., a hard-knock place that caters to ex-cons, former drug dealers and alcoholics...