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...narrow stalls on concrete floors while catheterized to devices that collect their urine. They can't move more than a step or two in any direction or lie down. And because Premarin farmers receive more money for concentrated urine, these helpless mares are denied adequate amounts of water and suffer from dehydration, in addition to a host of other illnesses. Within a few years, they become physical and mental wrecks who end up in slaughter houses, as do their babies, who are the by-products of the Premarin industry. Each year, many tens of thousands of foals are sold...
Girls who suffer from the rare genetic disorder known as Turner's syndrome are a little shorter than average, have a thicker neck and usually can't have children. Otherwise, there's nothing especially striking about them--except that often they're socially inept. They butt into conversations. They misread facial expressions, tones of voice, body language. They're insensitive to others' feelings...
...individual accomplishments in biology are no less impressive. She spent four years working in the laboratory of Harvard Medical Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Roberto Kolter, studying the survival mechanisms of bacteria when they suffer starvation...
...seems students cannot really learn a language in one year," says Fiorenza A. Wineapple, senior lecturer in Italian at Princeton. "The students that don't like languages will suffer through one year of language, and the students who excel at languages will not benefit because they will not get enough opportunity to learn that language fully...
Other students noted that particular groups would actually suffer as a result of randomization. The lack of natural support havens for Asian-Americans, blacks, homosexuals and others concerned many...