Word: northwestern
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...team of medical researchers has devised a technique that may eventually help parents sidestep this predicament. Scientists at the Illinois Masonic Medical Center and Northwestern University, led by geneticist Yury Verlinsky, say they can test for genetic defects in the human egg even before it has been fertilized. The technique could enable thousands of mothers with a family history of genetic disorders to avoid giving birth to an afflicted child without having to undergo abortion. Dr. C. Thomas Caskey, president of the American Society of Human Genetics, calls the new method "promising" but stresses that more testing is needed...
...meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontologists in Austin, Sereno for the first time revealed details of the find, made last year by a joint U.S.-Argentine expedition. The dinosaur was named Herrerasaurus, after Victorino Herrera, the goat farmer who first led scientists to the area in northwestern Argentina where the bones were found. Smaller than Apatosaurus and less fearsome than Tyrannosaurus, this dinosaur flourished 230 million years ago during the unique period when most of the earth's landmasses were gathered into a single supercontinent, now called Pangea. Until the most recent find, only a smattering of Herrerasaurus bones...
...latest skirmish erupted last week in San Francisco, as parishioners of St. Francis Lutheran Church voted 46 to 5 to call a lesbian couple as assistant pastors: Ruth Frost and Phyllis Zillhart, both graduates of Luther Northwestern seminary in Minnesota. Bishop Lyle Miller refuses to approve them as ministers because they will not commit themselves to sexual abstinence. The congregation, half gay, will have to ordain the women on its own, defying both the ordination rules of the 5.3 million-member Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and its policy against "homosexual erotic activity" among ministers...
...author's and that of his father. Yet each life is gallant for its own reasons. Christos Gatzoyiannis passed through Ellis Island first in 1910, and again in 1938. He headed for Worcester, Mass., where he built a steady vegetable-delivery business while his wife remained in the northwestern Greek town of Lia. It was not uncommon for married immigrant men to settle in America before sending for their families, although Gatzoyiannis took much longer than most. He returned periodically to Greece, where he played the rich American and sired four daughters and the author, born Nikola. During...
...what they really have in mind for you," says Walter Scott, who served as a director of Pillsbury and later ^ as U.S. managing director of its acquirer, Britain's Grand Metropolitan. "There are lots of inducements to start working on your resume." Scott is now a professor at Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management...