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However, the new system was off to a rough start...
...nine-year-old pal Martha has had a rough year. Her beloved maternal grandmother was killed by a drunk driver several months ago, and just two weeks ago, her paternal grandmother died after a long illness. The oldest of four kids, Martha is responsible and articulate. But she is still a young child, struggling with sadness and grief for the first time. Martha and her siblings have responded in line with their ages and temperaments, but all have experienced degrees of fear, anxiety and what their mother describes as "despair...
...administrators at Harvard's Division of Continuing Education--which administers the Summer School program--defend the rough treatment...
...calling him "Shrub" and goading him to fight--this time he let his team go to work. "We play it different down here," one of Bush's top South Carolina advisers told TIME last week. "We're not dainty, if you get my drift. We're used to playin' rough...
Sometime within the next few months we shall have a rough first draft of the complete human genome. This is routinely reported as an event of medical and perhaps ethical significance. I believe it is more than that. I believe it is the greatest intellectual moment in history. Bar none. Some may protest that a human being is more than his or her genes. I do not deny it. There is much, much more to each of us than a genetic code. But until now, human genes were an almost complete mystery. We will be the first generation to penetrate...