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...refusal of sports authorities to effectively tackle drug use-and consequent addiction-there's little hope the tide will turn any time soon. Indeed, health-care professionals helping pick up the pieces of lives shattered by doping dependency say the only real hope is that fans stage a revolt-not out of love for the game or the players, but from fear that their children, intent on attaining sporting glory, may wind up with the booby prize of addiction...
...half of its freshman class purely by a numerical formula in which SAT scores were the most important element. Because of the substantial gap among the races on the SAT, the schools could maintain a substantial minority presence only by explicitly setting test scores aside - which led to a revolt, culminating in a successful state ballot initiative against affirmative action. Surely Atkinson proposed abolishing the sat in the hope of diminishing some of the nearly unbearable pressures that the adoption of it had generated...
...That impulse is enough to put the Roman Catholic Church in full revolt; the Vatican has long condemned any research that involves creating and experimenting with human embryos, the vast majority of which inevitably perish. The church believes that the soul is created at the moment of conception, and that the embryo is worthy of protection. It reportedly took 104 attempts before the first ivf baby, Louise Brown, was born; cloning Dolly took more than twice that. Imagine, say opponents, how many embryos would be lost in the effort to clone a human. This loss is mass murder, says David...
That impulse is enough to put the Roman Catholic Church in full revolt; the Vatican has long condemned any research that involves creating and experimenting with human embryos, the vast majority of which inevitably perish. The church believes that the soul is created at the moment of conception, and that the embryo is worthy of protection. It reportedly took 104 attempts before the first IVF baby, Louise Brown, was born; cloning Dolly took more than twice that. Imagine, say opponents, how many embryos would be lost in the effort to clone a human. This loss is mass murder, says David...
...clan, in the fictional village of Chevathar, famous for its succulently sweet blue mangoes. After he dies in the early 1900s in a fateful clash between castes, his two sons leave home. One, the rebellious and violent Aaron, is a daredevil who eventually ends up joining the revolt against the British. The quiet elder brother Daniel takes another path: banished from the family for not fighting against the lower castes, he rejects politics, including Mohandas Gandhi's nonviolent independence movement, and becomes a successful doctor and wealthy manufacturer of Moonwhite Thyalam fairness cream, a sensation among young women...