Word: zealousness
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...more people do not succumb to autoimmune diseases. For example, researchers now realize that nearly everyone harbors T cells that will react against their own nerve tissue. Yet less than 1 person in 1,000 develops multiple sclerosis. What else is the body doing to police its overly zealous defenders? Scientists do not expect the uncertainties to persist much longer. "We're at a point where we know when a child would be at a 50 to 100 times greater risk of getting a long list of autoimmune diseases," says Stanford neurologist Lawrence Steinman. "For several diseases we know...
...think there are certainly zealous students and student groups that have sometimes been a bit overbearing in trying to press their particular point of view and that, therefore, have inhibited some of their fellow students from expressing themselves," says Bok. "I think there are probably some professors who have at least said things...that have suggested a little less than what I would regard as tolerance for freedom of ideas...
...rest of the cast is practically seamless. Particularly shining contributions come from Joe Hill, as Charles Errol, a conniving, racist cousin; and Amanda Frye, as a zealous church soloist. The only low point in this area is another church soloist. Beth Salm's, flat and slightly nasal voice...
...country (it was recently slashed to 70%), in part because the school was unusually aggressive about recouping every nickel it could. "I expect our controllers to do their best on behalf of the university," says Stanford President Donald Kennedy. Some would argue, however, that Stanford's controllers were overly zealous in their quest for money. Defense Department auditors say the university has been so uncooperative in the investigation that they threatened last week to turn the matter over to the Justice Department...
...same thing is happening today. There are occasional examples of over-zealous reactions to comments unfairly perceived as racist, sexist, "ableist." But anti-PC forces move too smoothly from these isolated incidents to the idea that all accusations of prejudice are unfounded "PC totalitarianism...