Word: controller
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...recognize. Last weekend, when my older sister substituted for our mom at a speech therapy session, my father immediately asked her where her mother was. It is clear to everyone - family, friends, nurses, doctors, therapists, social workers - that in the midst of the confusion and cloudiness that have seized control of my father's consciousness, my mother is the one thing he can still see clearly, the one thing that can possibly drive his desire to recuperate just enough so that he can move home...
...year since the shooting--in which two Columbine students killed 13 of their classmates before taking their own lives--three Harvard students have started organizations designed to change gun control laws and reduce violence in schools...
While Harvard used to invest directly in businesses without the help of the third-party companies, changes in the tax laws after the Republicans took control of the Congress made this difficult to continue...
Pity the beleaguered U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Even before last week's announcement by Celera, applications for patents on human genes were pouring in by the thousands. Biotech firms are seeking rights to genes that might control everything from the neurotransmitters in your brain to susceptibility to chronic diseases. The frenzy is rekindling fears that a few corporations will end up controlling a priceless resource...
...intensive invasions of privacy, from drug tests to locker searches. Some parents, perhaps exhausted by the demands of their own lives or simply sympathetic to the rigors of policing the behavior of modern adolescents, have praised educators' inclination to act in loco parentis, while others have resisted the schools' control over once private aspects of their children's lives...