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...drugs like Bidil, a heart failure drug that became the first U.S. medication to be approved and marketed expressly for black people, in 2005. But after approval, a deeper look at the research showed that clinical trials of Bidil - a combination of two generic heart drugs - involved only self-described African Americans, and that the drug was not useful for all blacks and very useful for some whites. In other words, the utility of the first race-based drug was not defined by race...
Gonzalez was one person Billings didn't loan money to. Gonzalez's wife Tabitha told police that Billings once donated $5,000 to their nonprofit program to teach people self-defense, but he refused them a loan to save their martial arts studio, which later went under. According to Tabitha, she and Gonzalez have six children...
Smitty thinks that the college process should be about self-discovery and growing up - not board scores and grade-point averages. So he urges students to talk with classmates about their essays, and really to pour their souls into their writing - what I call essay therapy. Too many students just see the college application as one more task during senior year. But it should be one of the best learning experiences of high school...
...conflict with Fatah, and for observing a cease-fire with Israel. Hamas officials routinely dismiss al-Qaeda's criticisms. Hamas' Beirut representative Osama Hamdan two years ago suggested that "a fugitive in the Afghan mountains" offered the Palestinian cause no advice worth heeding. Also in 2007, when a self-styled "Army of Islam" claiming inspiration from al-Qaeda kidnapped BBC reporter Alan Johnston in Gaza, Hamas forced the group to release...
...Harvard, chances are that you have a Type A personality. If you were admitted to Harvard, have a Type A personality, and consider yourself a social person, chances are that you’re spending your last days at home kissing fun as you know it goodbye with indulgent self-pity, perhaps rueing your decision to attend Harvard over [insert state school here]. Maybe you’ve desperately sought out all of the Class of 2013 Facebook group members with an affinity for intoxicating substances. Maybe you’ve even created a group called...