Word: tellings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...began reading the medical literature and calling scientists. Eventually he talked to Dr. Randall Burt, now the chief of gastroenterology at the University of Utah. Coincidentally, Burt had just heard University of Colorado surgeon William Waddell tell a scientific meeting that he had seen an aspirin-like arthritis drug called sulindac (Merck) almost miraculously melt away colon polyps. The finding was anecdotal, observed in only a few patients, but it was just what Nichols wanted to hear...
...person believes himself or herself to be psychically of the opposite sex. She said she would return to class in the fall dressed as a female, in preparation for a sex-change operation next year. "If you are gay or lesbian, you can make a choice whether to tell people," she says. "I don't have that luxury...
...with good performance evaluations is protected by antidiscrimination laws. But school policy requires parental waivers before children can take sex education or even watch R-rated films. And board president Scott Rodowick says Rivers was instructed that if students were to ask about the sex change in class to "tell them to go home and talk to their parents...
...from students honestly." At one school-board meeting, Nancy Mackarness, an evangelical Christian, complained it was inappropriate for Rivers to have discussed her sex change with Mackarness' 16-year-old daughter Lindsey in a private conversation at school. But as soon as Mackarness finished speaking, Lindsey jumped up to tell the board she disagreed with her mother and stood behind Rivers...
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