Word: orals
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...ordinary citizen visiting the court on an oral-argument day is likely to feel as though she has wandered into a Vatican conference room filled with adepts in Augustinian theology debating arcane questions in hurried Latin. The Justices are scarlet-capped cardinals; the law clerks are the brilliant new seminary graduates, their razor minds undulled by actual experience; the lawyers at the dais are the theologians commissioned to assist in plumbing the sacred texts...
Joseph F. Savage Jr., a lawyer, representing the examining board, said during oral arguments yesterday that granting extra break time for lactation would “compromise” the integrity of the exam, which is required by HMS for graduation and by the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine to begin a residency program...
Larry Craig was only the latest. Republican Bob Allen, a conservative Florida legislator, was also caught in a men's room this summer. (Predicting Craig's denials, he claimed his alleged offer to a cop of $20 and oral sex was a "big misunderstanding.") In 2006, Ted Haggard, president of the National Association of Evangelicals, admitted "sexual immorality" after a male personal trainer said on Denver radio that he had sex with Haggard. And now an Indiana prosecutor is investigating whether Glenn Murphy Jr., 33, who recently resigned the chairmanship of the Young Republicans, began oral sex with a sleeping...
...Much of west Africa's rich musical heritage is born out of the "griots" tradition - a caste of wandering musicians who use music to tell oral history, a bit like bards in medieval Europe. Modern-day griots also use rhythm and rhyme to help raise local awareness of issues like HIV-AIDS, a tradition which has been usurped by a new generation of young musicians. "I don't want to just play music, I have a mission to wake up African people," explains Kane...
...study published last May in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that HPV infection increases men's risk of certain kinds of oral cancer - in fact, the number of cancers associated with HPV in men, including penile and anal cancer, is considered nearly on par with the incidence of cervical cancer in women. Doctors say that vaccinating boys and men (as is done in Europe and Australia) is an important next step. Not only can it protect them from disease, but as carriers of HPV, vaccination may also indirectly protect girls and women...