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Gradually the cancer cell invades the turf occupied by its normal counterparts, killing all those in its path. It tricks nearby cells into forming food-bearing blood vessels, then compels them to churn out growth- spurring chemicals. To shield itself from patrolling immune cells, the cancer cell sprouts spiny armor like a sea urchin's. To expel the agents physicians send to kill it, the cancer cell deploys along its membrane a battery of tiny pumps. Is there a way to fight such...
...Guinier puts her reforms in the service of progressive ideals rather than using them as cynical shield against white oppression. Recently she's been saying that her proposed system of cumulatitive voting "promotes a concept of racial group identity that is interest-based rather than biological." Guinier's proposed reforms aim to allow voters flexibility to "self-select their identities" and to vote with other voters who share the same interests, whether they are of the same race or not. Voters should be able to from "self-identified, voluntary constituencies that choose to combine because of like minds, not like...
...case of Kiryas Joel v. Grumet. Kiryas Joel is a municipality in upstate New York where virtually all citizens are in the Satmar sect of Hasidic Orthodox Jewry. Kiryas Joel adheres rigidly to Old World dress and ways and maintains a close-knit, Yiddish-speaking community that tries to shield itself from outside influences. TV, movies and even higher education are shunned...
...handicapped youngsters. They used to be trained by public school teachers at an annex to a religious school; then, in 1985, the Supreme Court decided that Lemon forbids such cooperation. After busing the handicapped kids to an existing public school for several years, the Satmar parents, seeking to shield the children from harassment, set up their own local public school, where costly special education is made possible by state and federal...
Coming closer to the present, Leach offered a detailed account of alleged attempts by RTC officials to shield the Clintons from embarrassment by interfering in its earlier investigations of Whitewater and Madison. From September 1992 to October 1993, Leach said, L. Jean Lewis, the lead RTC investigator in Kansas City, Missouri, and her colleagues could not find out what had happened to material they had forwarded to Washington; at one point the Justice Department told Lewis it "had no record of that referral; it is not in ((the Justice)) computer system." Then after Justice finally began to move -- and after...