Word: brooks
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Last summer, Torres spent 40 hours a week at the New York State University Hospital at Stony Brook completing research for a study she designed comparing the safety and efficacy of two drugs in treating childhood Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder. Torres submitted the study to several pharmaceutical companies, but said many may not have taken her seriously because of her youth and scant medical experience...
...year, retrospective, randomized and clinical study, Torres studied the effects of two ADD treatment drugs, Methylphenidate (Ritalin) and Pemoline (Cylert) on 500 children from the database of Neurology Associates at SUNY Stony Brook. Torres spent afternoons during high school working on the study and, for the last two summers, devoted days at the hospital to conducting research...
...York, another well-known golfing discrimination case was filed by Long Island art teacher Lee Lowell, who joined the Cedar Brook Golf and Tennis Club in 1988 with her husband. Neither of them saw anything in the club's bylaws that would keep her from playing whenever she wished. But one Saturday morning, Lowell arrived early and was told she had to wait until 1:30 p.m., after all the men had been accommodated. She bridled but obeyed, and came back week after week to face the same treatment. After arguing with her for a few weeks, the starter gave...
...commission found the club had engaged in discrimination. Six years later, Lowell is still awaiting damages. "It wasn't a case of whether or not I worked during the week and could only play on Saturdays like the men," Lowell says today. "It was a matter of equality." Cedar Brook has since mended its ways and become a woman-friendly course...
...expect the Emerald Isle to be. His young narrator, never named, frolics though ferns and splashes in streams in near-idyllic countryside whenever he gets the chance to slip off with his friends. Yet all is not serene in this seeming pastoral; each crossing of the clear and shallow brook is a violation of the law. The narrator lives on the border of the Irish Free State, and the river hems him into his native Northern Ireland...