Word: treatments
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...Beijing-born investment analyst now living in Hong Kong. "I was very worried. She is stubborn and wouldn't sign the letter of confession. She had to go to two police stations for questioning." Her mother is also a Communist Party member, which singled her out for special treatment. The authorities repeatedly asked her about Falun Gong's organizational structure. Finally, she recanted so she could go home. "The security forces can lock up their bodies but not their hearts," says Xiao...
...M.I.T.'s Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research has finally managed to make human cells malignant--a feat they accomplished with two different cell types by inserting just three altered genes into their DNA. While these manipulations were done only in lab dishes and won't lead to any immediate treatment, they appear to be a crucial step in understanding the disease. This is a "landmark paper," wrote Jonathan Weitzman and Moshe Yaniv of the Pasteur Institute in Paris, in an accompanying commentary...
...Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans ruled that the University of Texas School of Law's admissions policy wrongly discriminated against white students. And in a referendum in California known as Proposition 209, California citizens voted by a 54 to 46 percent margin in favor of outlawing preferential treatment for any group...
Affirmative action, or the preferential treatment of minorities, was brought to the national spotlight in 1978 when the U.S. Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California vs. Bakke, ruled that race could be a factor in determining university admissions...
...Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans ruled that the University of Texas School of Law's admissions policy wrongly discriminated against white students. And in a referendum in California known as Proposition 209, California citizens voted by a 54 to 46 percent margin in favor of outlawing preferential treatment for any group...