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...person behind the booth, who turned out to be a vice president at Simon & Schuster, “just engulfed Noni with energy” and asked her to return the next day, according to Carter’s father...
...bipartisan duo is exactly right. Based on previous rulings by the Supreme Court, Prop 8 violates the Constitution’s guarantee that a state cannot “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” But even more strikingly, if the Court upholds Prop 8, the ramifications would be much more devastating than a speed bump on the road to civil equality. If they affirm that Prop 8 and the Fourteenth Amendment are not mutually exclusive, they would, effectively, overturn the landmark decision in 1967 that made bans on interracial...
SCRB 167: “What does Human Disease Teach us about Mammalian Biology?”—a 14-person seminar, takes a similar approach by bringing in patients suffering from the conditions covered in the class; one day featured a leukemia survivor and his wife, who discussed his past treatments, his bone marrow transplant, and his battle with “graft--versus-host” disease, in which transplant cells attack the cells of the host body...
...think it is good for students to see a live person at the end of this. It’s not just in mice,” says Professor Jerome Ritz, who also spoke that day about his research on graft-versus-host disease at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute...
...illustrate the universality of certain moral intuitions, Hauser presented two hypothetical options for saving a group of seven people in a closed room—pressing a button to divert poisonous gas from the room or pushing a person into a ventilation shaft to stop the gas from reaching the room...