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Since computers supporting text-to-speech synthesis programs have played a key role in Weed's academic successes, he says he may conduct future research on this technology...

Author: By Sheila VERA Flynn, | Title: A Medical Sciences Student Overcomes Remarkable Obstacles | 4/16/1996 | See Source »

Matthew A. Weed has managed to meet and surpass the successes of many Harvard students. And yet, for this gifted Division of Medical Sciences student, the world is blanketed with darkness...

Author: By Sheila VERA Flynn, | Title: A Medical Sciences Student Overcomes Remarkable Obstacles | 4/16/1996 | See Source »

...first blind and diabetic student to have studied at each Big Three university (Harvard, Yale and Princeton), Weed has taken the Ivy League and the world by storm. Despite his dual disability, he has demonstrated his wisdom in political science and life science...

Author: By Sheila VERA Flynn, | Title: A Medical Sciences Student Overcomes Remarkable Obstacles | 4/16/1996 | See Source »

...scientific aptitude recently earned him a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Fellowship. Weed will receive approximately $22,000 a year for the next three years to investigate the issue of access to science...

Author: By Sheila VERA Flynn, | Title: A Medical Sciences Student Overcomes Remarkable Obstacles | 4/16/1996 | See Source »

...that has ethicists worried. As scientists fill in knowledge about the genes of personality, will employers and insurers use genetic work-ups to deny jobs to those inclined to love thrills? Will parents demand prenatal testing to weed out children who have the "wrong" personality genes? "They are big issues," admits Dr. Richard Ebstein, a molecular biologist who led the research team at Jerusalem's S. Herzog Memorial Hospital, "and they will come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BEHAVIOR: WHAT MAKES THEM DO IT | 1/15/1996 | See Source »

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