Word: batchelor
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...This, in turn, can cause drowsiness, loss of consciousness, and brain damage. A Phase II clinical trial with the experimental drug cediranib conducted several years ago showed that patients treated with the drug survived longer compared to historical controls. Researchers wanted to know why this occurred, said Tracy T. Batchelor, one of the authors of the study and a consultant to AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, which produces cediranib. “This was a bench to bedside and back to bench journey,” added Batchelor, referring to the return to the laboratory after the drug’s clinical trial...
Experts seem to think that there is something to the Shugden allegations. "There is considerable anecdotal evidence to support what they say," Stephen Batchelor, co-founder of the Sharpham College for Buddhist Studies and Contemporary Enquiry, wrote in an email to TIME, although, he adds, "I have yet to see any hard evidence." Wrote Donald Lopez of the University of Michigan, "Buddhist monks who apply for an Identity Certificates must also submit a letter form their abbot. I was told that there may have been cases in which, contrary to the policy of the Government-in-Exile, monks who worship...
...Batchelor's fury does not extend to the Iraqi people, or the U.S. Army, or the government that sent him to war. "Even knowing the way things turned out, I wouldn't change a day of it," says Batchelor. "When you put on that uniform, you're part of something a lot bigger than yourself...
...gain "life experience" that Batchelor joined the Army in August 2001, dropping out of the branch of Texas A&M University in Commerce, Texas. He had spent three years working toward a degree in criminal justice, and now hopes to find a way to complete it without having to sit in classrooms full of people, a prospect he can't bear. He walked out on a job answering phones for a credit-card company last month and spends his days on his father's farm in Kemp, Texas, working...
...wife has left me, and I need to see a shrink," Batchelor says, chuckling. "I laugh about it because, hell, it can't get much worse." --By Amanda Bower/ Copperas Cove