Word: panels
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Though the panel was meant to help students understand the sometimes confusing policy, only about 20 students showed...
...AIDS caused by human error? That's the intriguing question that former BBC reporter Edward Hooper tries to answer in The River (Little, Brown), an exhaustive but quite readable tome that is part travelogue, part scientific inquiry, part investigative journalism. Hooper tries to establish what a panel of scientists convened in 1992 could not--that HIV spread from chimps to man in contaminated experimental polio vaccines that were tested in Africa. He comes close--very close--but falls short of the smoking-gun evidence that would put the issue to rest...
...reception and signing after the panel, an hors d'oeurves table featured papadamas and matzoh bread...
Thomas Professor of Divinity Harvey G. Cox Jr., one of four former chaplains on the five-person panel, pointed out that college students are at a stage when they analyze everything, including their own religion. He called the book "a real page-turner...
...panel had been publicized in the Boston Globe and Harvard Gazette, and the divinity school fielded over 80 calls asking about it in the last few days, according to Nancy E. Nienhuis, the school's program coordinator...