Word: proof
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...examples not simply of scholars, but of individuals and leaders who demonstrated that 'ignorance and particularism and prejudice' could be overcome--in the nation as well as in the university. These direct encounters between a brilliant young African-American and a cadre of progressive New England academics produced living proof for DuBois that people of different races could meet and work on common terms, could respect one another, and could strengthen one another's commitment to the important moral as well as intellectual values essential to serious education...
...language, embodying all the major advances in computer theory of the past quarter-century. It had to be "object-oriented," forcing programmers to write in small, self-contained units that could be slotted into one another like Lego blocks. It had to be robust, which is to say crash-proof, doing without many standard programming tools that give developers flexibility but can lead to unpredictable results. Finally, it had to be secure, even in the hostile hacker- and virus-filled environment of the Internet. Before Java allows any line of code to be executed, it determines whether the command...
...clinical research through billing surpluses; grants from the National Institutes of Health tended to pay only for big-ticket basic science. Colorado's Dr. Jones accuses HMOs of placing medicine in a double bind. "Is it reasonable," he asks, "for an insurer to demand the gold standard of proof and simultaneously refuse to pay for patients to enter a trial to get that level of proof?" Dr. Jones is convinced that women who once would have come to him for a transplant aren't coming because their doctors, operating under tight managed-care cost guidelines, aren't telling them that...
When Dr. Jones examined Christy deMeurers, he believed a transplant could help her. "The available proof for its efficacy in breast cancer was at least equivalent to many other procedures that we do every day," he says. As early as 1990, even Health Net had found evidence that bone-marrow transplants might become a standard weapon against breast cancer. That year the company's then chief medical officer, Dr. Leonard Knapp, ordered a study by Technology Assessment Group of San Francisco to evaluate the treatment. The report, however, didn't reach the conclusion he had hoped for. It found that...
Wanna be JULIA ROBERTS' boyfriend? There are two requirements: be famous; be seen with her. Last week's rumor had Roberts cooing with MATTHEW PERRY from Friends. And purported photographic proof of their liaison exists, thanks to American Journal, which shot a segment on the Friends set when Roberts did a cameo. Not only did Roberts and Perry kiss in the course of televisual duty; they were also seen together afterward. This brings the tally of men Roberts has reportedly been linked with since just before her split from Lyle Lovett to six, not counting the really nutty stories...