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...made their way to federal appeals courts through the early 1990s, the figure has risen to as many as 94 in recent years, according to Richard Arum, a sociology and education professor at New York University. The cases typically involve issues like school attire and online insults, and the sheer volume of litigation has led teachers to forgo keeping order in school just to avoid lawsuits, according to Arum...
...nerve or any other kind of tissue. That could give doctors the ability to repair or replace cells destroyed by disease or injury, without fear of immune-system rejection. Experts were quick to warn that significant hurdles remained before the technique might ever be used in people, but the sheer simplicity of Yamanaka's discovery-he found just four genes were required to reprogram the mouse skin cells-was cause for elation. "This is great science," says Alan Trounson, professor for stem-cell sciences at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. "It takes us a big step closer to reprogramming adult...
...them in English classes or make them say a hundred Hail Marys, at the end of the day, illegals would be allowed to stay and become citizens under this bill. That's amnesty. And that's a good thing for America. The estimated 12 million illegals are by their sheer numbers undeportable. More important, they are too enmeshed in a healthy U.S. economy to be extracted...
...Raquel O. Alvarenga ’07, a joint classics and government concentrator, says that government’s low ranking on satisfaction surveys is “primarily” a function of its sheer size. “I don’t think it’s really anything fundamental to the department,” she adds...
Immigration restrictionists typically underestimate the sheer gravitational power of American life. Immigration renews the immigrant more than it renews America. The Catholics who so worried the Know-Nothings became champion practitioners of democratic politics; in the 20th century, their descendants' devotion to religious and political liberty helped convert the worldwide Roman Catholic Church at Vatican...