Word: potter
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...mental patient in the U.S. who is held involuntarily has the right to be either treated or released. "A finding of 'mental illness' alone cannot justify a state's locking a person up against his will and keeping him indefinitely in simple custodial confinement," wrote Justice Potter Stewart. The Constitution, he ruled, prohibits forced incarceration of untreated patients "if they are dangerous to no one and can live safely in freedom." In short, a state may not "fence in the harmless mentally ill solely to save its citizens from exposure to those whose ways are different...
Ironically, it is Carrie who looks like the old-fashioned girl. Her round face and soft brown eyes have a grave gentleness that might have prompted Beatrix Potter to call her "sweetly pretty." But Carrie has a mischievous grin, sharper, more biting than Debbie's ever was, and her demeanor is world-weary. A show business kid, Carrie knows all the steps but cannot quite catch life's tune. "Emotionally, I'm crippled," she likes to explain. "I have to catch up on myself...
...experiments dealt with "transfer factor," a controversial substance regarded as potentially significant in cancer research. Rosenfeld along with David Dressler, assistant professor of Biochemistry and head of the research team, and Huntington Potter '72, a graduate assistant, had published articles in two prestigious scientific journals on experiments they felt indicated the existence of the elusive substance...
Combined with a lengthy dry spell during which the team was unable to reproduce its earlier results, the forgeries cast such doubt that Dressler and Potter issued a "statement of uncertainty and possible retraction" to the two journals...
Despite a cautiously worded statement from Rosenfeld that "there is absolutely no relation between these actions [the forgeries] and the inability to reproduce our reported laboratory findings," the experiments have been put aside. "We haven't done a prep [of the experimental material] in quite a while," Potter said recently...