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...much less being done," says Diekema, who chairs the bioethics committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics and was brought in to consult on this case. For the ethics committee of Seattle Children's Hospital, which reviewed the proposed treatment, "it took time to get past the initial response-'wow, this is bizarre'- and think seriously about the reasons for the parents' request," says Diekema...
...Someone brought a bra? Wow!” said Susan B. Marine, director of the Harvard College Women’s Center. “Well, I didn’t say anyone couldn’t bring anything.” Hundreds of other articles of clothing were exchanged at the “Naked Ladies Brunch,” a clothing swap and drive held at the Women’s Center this Saturday. The swap was organized to bring women on campus together, as well as benefit a women’s shelter in Boston, according...
...climate transformations the planet has been undergoing in recent years, many of them undesirable, most a result of human actions. As you might expect from a book assembled to convince you that something very unpleasant is afoot, the images are sobering. All the same, there's a considerable wow factor in the aerial and space photography the editors frequently use to illustrate their points about melting ice caps, advancing deserts and rising sea levels. They have a particular thing for discouraging compare-and- contrast shots of sights like Iraqi wetlands before and after being drained by Saddam Hussein, the disappearance...
...acorns. Meanwhile, more chefs are discovering that serving breakfast foods after noon doesn't have to mean going downscale. "Anyone can serve breakfast food at dinner. If I slapped French toast on the menu that wouldn't mean anything, but paired with figs and foie gras, it's like, wow," says Bill Brodsky, executive chef at the oceanside Twenty-Eight Atlantic (which recently earned a 3-star rating from the Boston Globe) in Chatham, Mass...
...honor to be respected by every other person in the math community,” Harrison says. “People say, ‘Wow, you’re in Math 55?’ and they really respect us….Yes, there’s a lot of work, and yes, we have to devote a lot of time to the class. But the rewards from the math community, the other people in the class, and the satisfaction of learning so much in such a short period of time so greatly outweigh having to put that time...