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...larger role in chronic diseases than they thought. But that doesn't necessarily mean they know what to do about it. "We're in a quandary right now," says Dr. Gailen Marshall, an immunologist at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston. "We're advancing the idea to heighten awareness. But we really can't recommend specific treatments...
...jury of the WTC memorial, as one of its most prominent members, Maya Lin, famously had her big break when she won the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial competition as a Yale architecture student. Although Walker brings expertise to the table, his role has been to heighten the virtues of Arad’s design that jurors recognized from the outset...
...exaggerated Jewish complicity in Jesus’ death, is neither here nor there. Gibson, as a believing Christian, has every right to prefer the word of the New Testament over the word of university professors. If Gibson chooses to elaborate the story with non-scriptural scenes that dramatize and heighten the Jews’ responsibility for Jesus’ death, we may criticize this decision, and we may rightly say that such additions weaken Gibson’s claim to “historical accuracy,” but they do not, in and of themselves, make the movie...
...don’t think that the police were ready on Monday,” said Ross, noting that law enforcement agencies did not significantly heighten police presence in the Fenway area...
...medicine, but as encouraging as that development is, it represents only one category of marijuana use. The others are sometimes grouped under the general heading of “recreational,” but that is hardly an adequate description of, say, marijuana’s capacity to heighten the appreciation of music and art or to strengthen the sense of connection to the natural world. It can deepen emotional and sexual intimacy, crystallize new ideas and insights, and expand one’s capacity to appreciate new aspects of life. Experienced users know that ideas flow more readily under...