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...movies and on TV, environmental pollution, the U.S.-led war in Iraq, bullying and drug use in Czech schools. But the effect of his actions has been unmistakable. In the past seven weeks, five more people in the Czech Republic have set themselves ablaze, and three have died: Vera Jedlicková, 50, burned herself near her family plot at Brno's central cemetery on March 18, the day she checked out of a psychiatric ward where she had been treated for depression. Roman Másl, a 21-year-old student, immolated himself in Pilsen on April 1. Pavel...
...DIED. VERA HRUBA RALSTON, 79, Czech-born Olympic skater and Ice Capades sweetheart who went on to a less stellar career in B movies during the 1940s and '50s (The Lady and the Monster; I, Jane Doe); of cancer; in Santa Barbara, Calif. She added the name Ralston (from a breakfast cereal) because people stumbled over Hruba...
...Vera Hassner Sharav, the president and founder of the Alliance for Human Research Protection (AHRP), gave Koski credit for his willingness to hear differing points of view in his role at OHRP. AHRP is a non-profit group that works to raise public awareness about the use of human subjects in research...
...take over his life. In 1998 he returned to China for more studies, enrolling at the prestigious Hopkins center in Nanjing. There he met local journalist Xie Chunlin, whom he brought back to the U.S. and married in 2000. Ford briefly interned in the office of Portland Mayor Vera Katz but otherwise supported his family by selling cell phones. He became more serious about his faith, letting his beard grow, wearing a Muslim cap and studying Arabic. Friends say the man they knew as a gentle giant began distancing himself from the African-American Muslim community, choosing instead to pray...
...Vera Hassner Sharav, president of the Alliance of Human Research Protection (AHRP), a national advocacy group for participants in medical studies, said more drastic change is needed...