Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Judge Garrity dismissed the other five charges.Stating that "Harvard and its supervisors had donetheir level best to assist the plaintiff through avery difficult period in her life," Garrityconcluded that Harvard's treatment of Walters didnot violate any state or federalanti-discrimination...
...party leaders have treated him with condescension and kid gloves. The media have asked endlessly "What does Jesse want?" And the other Democratic candidates with the exception of Al Gore even to refuse to attack his viewpoints. All this wary treatment of the Jackson candidacy reflects a subtle form of racism saying that he must be handled with care, that he cannot win the nomination no matter how high his vote totals, and that his positions therefore are not worthy of being debated...
...system written at Stanford in the mid- 1970s. Named for a group of antibiotics, Mycin was the brainchild of a Ph.D. candidate named Edward Shortliffe, who designed it to help physicians diagnose certain infectious diseases and choose appropriate remedies. After painstakingly interviewing doctors about the process of diagnosis and treatment, Shortliffe and company programmed Mycin with some 500 rules to guide its decisions...
Mycin took some 20 man-years to complete. It turned out to be more accurate than the humans against whom it was tested: in one trial, the system prescribed the correct treatment 65% of the time, in contrast to human specialists, who were right in 42.5% to 62.5% of cases. Still, Mycin did not have a clue that it was diagnosing a human being, nor did it have any idea what a human is. In fact, it was perfectly capable of trying to prescribe penicillin to fix a broken window. All it could do was rigidly test the applicability...
Those of us who ascribe to the "We were here first" reasoning are hypocritical; witness the history of our treatment of Native Americans. Those of us who don't, at least not consciously, are still implicated in our country's ironic policies. Without actively combatting the not-so-new wave of ethnocentrism--writing to our representatives, for example--we cannot expect the politics of xenophobic hostility to fade away...