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...admit: the utility of what I know is debatable: Fred "Mr." Rogers is an ordained Presbyterian minister. Henry Mancini (late composer of such classics as "The Pink Panther" and "Moon River") wrote the theme to the TV show "What's Happening?" The programs "Perfect Strangers," "Family Matters," "Full House" and "Step by Step" all co-exist in the same fictional universe because either Steve Urkel or a member of the Winslow family has appeared on each of them...
Because Marcy Hawley is not only a preservationist but a parent as well, with a 16-year-old son at Wilmington High, the thin, cerebral publisher, who is married to the town's Presbyterian minister, has become a reluctant crusader for school reform. Serving on the local school system's Multicultural Advisory Board, she and other newcomers have been pushing for racial-sensitivity training and a minority-hiring program because the system, despite growing numbers of black, Hispanic, Japanese and Native American students, has just one nonwhite teacher...
Women like Evelyn Levin may be left weighing the potential benefits of the new drugs against their unknown risks. For example, asks Dr. Ethel Siris, an endocrinologist at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City, "what do you do about the woman whose father had a heart attack and whose mother had breast cancer and also broke a hip?" Raloxifene won't make her problems go away, but it may give her a little more room to maneuver...
Shortly after 5 a.m., Teri Majewski marches purposefully into Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago. Strongly built and fit looking, the 34-year-old mother of two young children seems too healthy to be in a hospital. But she checks in at the day-surgery department and is summoned to an examining room, from which she emerges a few minutes later in a baggy blue hospital gown and the inevitable plastic bracelet. Suddenly, she looks vulnerable. This morning Majewski is scheduled to undergo a bone-marrow harvest, in which doctors will remove about a quart...
...that officially assigns two congregation members in good standing, as Mormonism does, to visit every household in their flock monthly. Perhaps in consequence, no other denomination can so consistently parade the social virtues most Americans have come around to saying they admire. The Rev. Jeffrey Silliman, of the same Presbyterian group that made the heresy charge, admits that Mormons "have a high moral standard on chastity, fidelity, honesty and hard work, and that's appealing...