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...very happy to have him on board. We were not expecting to look beyond the local community," Power said. "His qualities and background were so perfectly suited to this position that it seemed the right thing...
...Often I feel that teaching skill isn't really emphasized at the law school, but in her case, teaching is in her background," said Kerry Regan, a second year law student who is also co-chair of LAMBDA, the law school student group for its gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community...
...Million mothers may not be disappointed by lackadaisical legislators. The moms have specific goals--child-proofing hand-guns, more comprehensive background checks at gun shows, and strictly enforcing existing gun laws. These are measures long advocated by the gun-control lobby, but with the force of mothers behind them, Congress may finally find the strength to free itself from the moneyed-grasp...
Established advocacy groups such as Handgun Control have helped Dees-Thomases and her moms refine their message, moving from a sheer expression of outrage over gun killings to a call for what they term "common-sense gun laws"--tougher background checks, longer "cooling-off" periods before buying a gun and mandatory safety locks on handguns. The Million Moms agenda also insists that Congress regulate guns the way states do automobiles: by licensing the owner and registering...
...before they developed any symptoms. The researchers looked at 193 men and women with Alzheimer's and asked them, or their caregivers, how they spent their free time when they were younger. The scientists compared the answers with those given by 358 people of roughly the same age and background who had similar occupations but didn't have Alzheimer's. "We found that intellectual activities were relatively more protective than physical ones," says Dr. Robert Friedland, who led the study. The results may still be skewed, Friedland notes, because caregivers may have subconsciously exaggerated their charges' passivity. And, of course...