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...that they had no control over the circumstances of their birth. And they consistenly ignore the fact that, while, say, Michael Jordan (to use an example from Prof. Sandel's Justice lectures) did work very hard to utilize his talents for basketball, those talents would have been all for naught without the City of Chicage (a government!) who built the stadium in which Jordan's Bulls play, or without the University of North Carolina (sounds like a state school to me). Indeed, even Binswanger went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology--he was dependent on the state...
...lesions. Ignoring these discoveries in the article violates the understanding of the public who may be unaware that the fundamental mechanisms of cancer are understood much better than they ever were before. It conveys the impression that the $35 billion spent over the past 25 years has come to naught...
...scientists was involved: Irving W. DeVoe, a Canadian professor who had co-founded DeVoe-Holbein. In the early 1990s, a Hariston unit announced a project to extract minerals from mining waters in Butte, Montana, and many local people who believed in the project bought stock. The scheme came to naught, as did much of the money invested. (In its current incarnation, Hariston is a computer software company...
...well as Associate Dean Carol Thompson, Administrative Dean Nancy Maull, Associate Vice President Candace Corvey, Assistant Dean Josephy McCarthy, and Associate Dean Phyllis Keller, Associate Dean Anne Berman, and Associate Dean Laura Fisher, the best laid plans for the development of Afro-American Studies would have come to naught. The rebuilding of the Department of Afro-American Studies at Harvard has been a truly collaborative project, involving both the faculty and students in Afro-American Studies and the unfailing support of the administration. Working with these individuals has made the arduous task of building a valid and respectable academic program...
...minds of many Americans, the campaign for health-care reform ended in 1994, when Congress rejected President Clinton's 1,342-page Health Security bill. Ironically, however, while the Clinton health-care-reform juggernaut was coming to naught, the private sector was revolutionizing health care outright--and it continues to do so. Insurance companies, health-maintenance organizations, private-practice physicians, hospitals, drug companies and a host of other vested interests are all fighting furiously to determine which of these interests comes out on top. When all is said and done, I am afraid, the patient...