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...after a 10-year fight. During that time, I learned much about its diagnosis, treatment and funding. Advancements in diagnosis and the array of treatments that are available to women with certain characteristics of the disease are heartening. However, there is a paucity of funding. We need to better understand priorities and must demand that our representatives do too. Members of Congress can work to more effectively define funding priorities while realizing that their efforts affect more than just government agencies, corporations and re-election opportunities. We are not dealing with numbers here; we are dealing with people's lives...
...they’d like to go out and spend time with their friends, because administrators just aren’t here then,” Sundquist points out. “So its different for them, as much as they try and as much as they care, to understand students...We’d like to see at the end of the day a good compromise that can allow people to have fun and be safe in whatever conditions they would like...
...personal views are, they have little effect on the profound benefits his research has created for humanity. For that matter, it does not appear that Watson actually stands by his racist remarks. Shortly after the scandal broke, Watson told The Associated Press “I cannot understand how I could have said what I am quoted as having said. There is no scientific basis for such a belief.” The true danger of Watson’s insensitive remarks and his apparent predilection for promulgating distasteful views is that as a result of his stature...
...investigating its practices to divulge their sources. Journalists may hesitate before writing a controversial expose, and sources and whistle blowers would likely be reticent to come forward. While the law may not go far enough, it is at the very least a concrete step in the right direction. We understand the reasons that the legislation must define clearly who falls under its protection and that it must discriminate between serious journalists and those who simply claim to be journalists so they can enjoy the benefits of the shield law. But college journalists are just as serious about their craft...
...embodies. To a large extent, this is natural and expected—after all, Caucasian Americans have been in the country since its inception, and have had many multiple generations in which to define and redefine their version of American culture. It is logical for newcomers to respect and understand the historical precedents that contribute to present society; in fact, it is vital to their survival. But it is this very naturalness that makes the acceptance of cultural trends so dangerous. Assimilation risks becoming the psychological tyranny of a cultural majority...