Word: provenances
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...smarter? Technology always adapts to demand; prenatal sex-selection tests designed to weed out inherited diseases that strike one gender or the other--hemophilia, for instance--are being used to help families have the son or daughter they always wanted. Human-growth hormone was intended for children with a proven severe deficiency, but it came to be used on self-conscious short kids--if their parents could afford as much as $30,000 for a year's injections...
Harvard's administrative board provides students with few of the legal protections provided by courts, such as the right to cross examine accusers and to be represented by counsel. But while many call the system unjust, its standards have proven difficult to challenge in court...
Harvard's administrative board provides students with few of the legal protections provided by courts--such as the right to cross examine accusers and to be represented by counsel. But while many call the system unjust, its standards have proven difficult to challenge in court...
...that governs mathematical ability and spatial reasoning--two key ingredients to the sort of thinking Einstein did best--was significantly larger than average and may also have had more interconnections among its cells, which could have allowed them to work together more effectively. While the case is far from proven, says Dr. Francine Benes, director of the Structural Neuroscience Laboratory at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass., "it's a fascinating discovery...
...Dean of the College Harry R.Lewis `68, entering his fifth year on the job.Lewis has proven that he is not afraid to makeunpopular decisions--like randomization andtighter alcohol policies--but this boldness,coupled with a penchant for sticking his foot inhis mouth, have not won the dean many friendsamong students...