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...vibrancy of the evangelical community makes Harvard a more attractive option for some prospective students and their parents, McLeod says...
...Iran's defiance be complemented by new incentives offered for compliance. Most importantly, that would include the U.S. offering Iran security guarantees - in other words, to curb its nuclear program, the Bush Administration would effectively have to promise not to attack the current regime in Tehran. Until now, that option has been unacceptable to those in the Bush Administration who advocate ?regime change? in Tehran. Asked to comment on the German proposal, the U.S. representative at the Paris talks, Deputy Secretary of State Nicholas Burns, was quoted as saying that isolation, not engagement, was the only acceptable option...
...patients develop resistance to it or suffer adverse reactions that can be severe, even fatal. Such patients are few, but those few are angry, vocal and organized. They say they need animal insulin to maintain their health, and if it is no longer available in the U.S., their only option will be to get it abroad. But most insurance doesn't cover that, so those without resources would be abandoned to their fate. "I've got a few bottles left," says Joi Shaivitz, 47, an environmental re-searcher from Owings Mills, Md., who suffers from Type 1 diabetes...
...have joined together to create the Insulin Dependent Diabetes Trust (IDDT), a charity that maintains an informative website, iddtinternational.org IDDT contends that as many as 10% of insulin-dependent diabetics cannot tolerate synthetic insulin. The group offers lots of anecdotal evidence that animal insulin may be a better therapeutic option for some patients and argues that genetically engineered insulin was allowed on the market on the assumption--not evidence--of its superiority. IDDT says no long-term studies have been carried out to compare synthetic and animal insulins and cites a 2002 review by the prestigious Cochrane Collaboration that found...
...America Coalition, which planned a separate march along Wilshire Blvd. in midtown Los Angeles for 4 p.m. - after school hours and closer to quitting time for most jobholders. "We are not against the boycott," Sanbrano told TIME.com. "We just want to make sure that people have different options, because some workers will be fired if they take a day off and some students will be reprimanded by their parents and sanctioned by the schools for being absent today without permission. We want to give them another option for civic participation today. This is just part of our longer-term strategy...