Word: size
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...attending graduate school. According to the University, the small number of women and minorities with Ph.D.'s is the biggest obstacle to a more diverse faculty. By removing some of the economic burdens of college graduates through loan forgiveness, the University can go a long way toward increasing the size of the pool of qualified minority and women scholars...
...hour procedure, the surgeons removed the fist-size left lobe from 29-year-old Teresa Smith's liver and transplanted most of it into her daughter. The revolutionary technique -- transplanting a liver from a living donor -- had been performed in Brazil, Australia and Japan, but this was the first time it was tried in the U.S. Doctors have had a great deal of success in kidney, pancreas and bone-marrow transplants from living donors, and hope is rising that the liver will join that list. Says Dr. Christoph Broelsch, who led the Chicago transplant team: "This surgery potentially opens...
...both mother and daughter are doing well. Because the liver has the power to regenerate itself by forming new tissue, Teresa's liver should grow back to its normal size. Similarly, baby Alyssa's new liver should grow as she does...
...critics, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl has been the perpetually shrinking statesman. Despite his formidable physical size, the Bonn leader has been derided for a political ineptitude that has time and again diminished his stature in West Germany and among Europe's leaders. Lacking the mettle of Margaret Thatcher, the imperial hauteur of Francois Mitterrand, and the wiles of his rival and coalition partner, Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Kohl has made his mark as the Continent's veteran political survivor...
...afraid to make the two pies the same size? Probably because the option of having everybody in society earn $9,900,001 divided by 100--or $99,000 per person--seems quite reasonable...