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...same time, Holland acknowledges that "my situation was much easier, because Washington Square is one of the easiest of James's novels." Because "the plot is very, very simple," her source material could withstand a more conservative adaptation than could the more intricate and interior Portrait undertaken by Campion...
...usually the drug of choice for bloodless medicine because of its stimulative effect on red-blood-cell production. Hormones and vitamin B12 are also prescribed to encourage cell production. Doctors may employ a hyperbaric chamber to flood patients' blood with higher concentrations of oxygen so that they can better withstand surgical procedures and low blood levels, while oximetry devices and other noninvasive monitoring equipment keep close watch over oxygen levels...
Since 1995, Rudenstine has called for more research to quantify the advantages of diversity, and at a conference at Harvard last spring a number of nationally-recognized attorneys told participants that the current research on diversity is not substantial enough to withstand a court's scrutiny...
...ideas behind the Internet was to build a computer network that could withstand a nuclear holocaust. Last week the Net proved its resilience in the face of another sort of attack. The Communications Decency Act, signed into law by President Clinton last year, was designed to protect children by prohibiting "indecent" speech or images from being sent through cyberspace. But even before Congress passed the legislation, free-speech advocates were blasting it as an unacceptable infringement on the First Amendment...
...just McVeigh and Terry Nichols. He thinks John Doe 2 is still out there and he wants to go after some of the smaller players, like Michael Fortier." Macy also argues that the state trial is needed because the untested terrorism law under which McVeigh was convicted might not withstand appeals. But many in Oklahoma would rather see quicker closure in the case so they can move on with their lives. "I just don't see the point of putting the family members, this city through another big trial," Bud Welch, whose daughter Julie died in the bombing, told TIME...