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...cancer researcher turned inventor has patented a technique for chemically bonding bacteria-fighting polymers to such fabrics as gauze bandages, cotton T shirts and men's underpants. It's a technology with an unusually wide variety of uses, from underwear that doesn't stink to hospital dressings that thwart infections...
...incomplete resource for freshmen. They have either been unable or insufficiently trained to dispense academic advice to freshmen in desperate need of it. Our criticisms are not meant to overshadow or diminish the excellent work done by some individual prefects working against a system almost deliberately setup to thwart their efforts. However, merely because some prefects do good work does not mean the system is not in need of serious change, the kind of change announced this week by the College. We hope that the revamped program will offer a dual social-academic advising service to freshman, raising the level...
...this discrimination in stride, because he sees his future not as a minister, but rather outside the ecclesiastical sector. “I feel like my calling is for scholarship more than organized religion,” Nelson says. He hopes that education policy may provide a route to thwart discrimination against gay men and women. STOPPED AT THE ALTARAllison L. McNeill, a first-year MDiv student, finds herself in an even more vexing predicament: she grew up surrounded by the traditions of the town Presbyterian Church, but after coming out in high school, she and a friend gave...
...Canada freshened debate about whether women's hockey belongs in the Olympics. The IOC is committed to women's hockey until the 2010 Games in Vancouver. Beyond that date, there's discussion about limiting the tournament to the top-ranked teams and of introducing a measure to thwart lopsided scores...
...approach of Cheneyland. This has been most obvious in Bush's handling of North Korea and Iran, where Administration policy has softened noticeably, aligning the U.S. with countries that the President had been at odds with over Iraq. Cheney was also the White House point man in trying to thwart Senator John McCain's effort to ban torture of detainees in U.S. custody anywhere in the world. Even after Bush yielded to McCain, Cheney's staff worked hard to try to narrow the restrictions in the legislation...