Word: suffere
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...moments like Stonewall in 1969, or in groups like ACT UP in the '80s, have left on us--the political, economic and intellectual elite--the burden of future progress. We shirk that burden if we choose to live anonymously or apathetically. Yet it is not we who will suffer but those who are younger, less educated, less wealthy--those who are not inoculated from stigma and violence with a Harvard diploma...
Beacuse TFs arer crucial to undergraduate education, it is often the students who suffer the consequences when their graduate student instructors fail to make the grade...
...lecture class with hundreds of students, the professor's teaching ability may not be as important as the Teaching Fellow's (TF) skill in explaining difficult concepts or leading a meaningful discussion. Because TFs are crucial to undergraduate education, it is often the students who suffer the consequences when their graduate student instructors fail to make the grade...
...research team reported in Thursday?s issue of the journal Nature that it had identified an enzyme, presenilin, that controls the production of a protein believed to be responsible for causing Alzheimer?s disease. Some 4 million Americans suffer from the debilitating memory loss. ?This is encouraging news for those afflicted with the devastating disease,? says TIME medical columnist Christine Gorman, ?but Alzheimer?s is still far from being conquered.? As with so many other medical discoveries, doctors and patients need to remain cautious. ?The report is significant from a research point of view,? says Gorman, ?but it needs...
...PASS THE SALT Researchers reported last week that they may have found a gene that makes some African Americans more likely to suffer high blood pressure when they consume salt. The gene in question controls how much the blood vessels widen, which lowers blood pressure, or narrow, which raises blood pressure. As little as half a teaspoon of table salt can raise blood pressure levels five points (mm Hg) in those who have the gene...