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Until recently, the negative aspects of New York living were more than compensated by the exhilaration of simply being there. As architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable says, "When it is good, New York is very, very good. Which is why New Yorkers put up with so much that is bad." Over the decades, Gothamites have evolved a hard-boiled, calculating approach to life that enables them to enjoy the city's manifold pleasures while minimizing its most egregious hassles. Says Brigette Moore, 19, a college student from Brooklyn's Sheepshead Bay section: "I wouldn't have wanted to grow...
...experiment proposed by Dr. Anderson is more controversial. He would use gene therapy to treat children who lack a key immune-system enzyme called adenosine deaminase (ADA), leaving them vulnerable to every passing germ. Some researchers question the wisdom of performing a novel -- and potentially dangerous -- therapy on children, especially since there is already an effective drug treatment. "There are a lot of other diseases without therapies," says Duke University's Dr. Michael Hershfield, an expert on ADA deficiency. "And they're in adults who can make decisions for themselves...
...experiment has inspired some unavoidable clowning around. Captain Tom Taylor of the Ada County sheriff's department jokes that it is hard to persuade prisoners "to wear the little red nose and the funny hair." In fact, the inmates wear their own clothes and are routinely warned to use sunscreen to protect themselves from the hot summer sun. Meals are served at picnic tables, portable toilets are set up near the tent, and prisoners sleep on military cots. Says Marshal Carr, serving a sentence for driving under the influence: "It's fun really. I use it to catch...
Former Director of the Schlesinger library Barbara M. Solomon '40, who has been both a Warren fellow and a Bunting fellow, detailed a history of Ada Comstock's long tenure as president of Radcliffe...
...primarily an ecumenical service, but it was important that there be that protest," said Ada M. Fan, an English instructor...