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...upshot has been that even since Bill skipped town Tuesday, the remainder of the convention has clearly been guided by his spirit. Vice presidential candidate Sen. John R. Edwards, D-N.C., made the upbeat, down-home populism of Clinton his own last night, urging listeners to adopt the “politics of hope” and reminding them that “hope...
...upshot of this shift is that the University has a much harder time recruiting top faculty and students in the life sciences, faculty...
...upshot has been a slew of fawning national media attention, from what Summers acknowledges was a flattering New York Times Magazine profile, lauding his bold activism on campus, to puff question-and-answer pieces in Time and The Wall Street Journal, to a spate of other positive stories on the curricular review and other Summers issues...
...upshot is that doctors and researchers are figuring out better ways to protect travelers. For instance, over the past two years, outbreaks of pneumonia in less developed parts of the world have made it essential for travelers 50 and older to be vaccinated against the disease. (In the past, the vaccination had been largely recommended only for those over 65, says Connor.) They should also be immunized against hepatitis A and B, which can now be done in a combination vaccine that is administered in three doses, rather than the five injections required if the vaccines are given separately...
...everyone else in the academy can ignore it. I would argue, rather, that study of the Asian American experience across and from within such diverse disciplines as government, comparative literature and sociology can be more effective in uncovering new knowledge about the Asian-American experience—with the upshot being an ability to inject academic ways of thinking into these disciplines...