Word: professors
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...difference between orientation and self-acceptance is non-existent," said Jonathan W. Strong '66, professor of English at Tufts, in an address to the crowd...
These results should reassure parents who have been told their son or daughter needs inhaled steroids. "The word steroid is scary and confusing to people," says Dr. Gail Shapiro, a clinical professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle and a co-author of one of the papers. The first problem is that corticosteroids (the scientific name of the asthma drugs) sounds an awful lot like the anabolic steroids used by some body builders. They aren't. Not only are corticosteroids safer but the inhaler makes them especially effective as well. Breathing in the drug...
Tesauro, a law professor and former advocate general at the European Court of Justice, was named to his post in 1998 and quickly set about giving the Authority real teeth. It helps that the country's current Prime Minister, Giuliano Amato, was Tesauro's predecessor. In the past two years, the Authority has imposed more fines than in the previous eight years combined. Mario Libertini, who teaches industrial law at the University of Rome, says Amato brought tremendous prestige to the Authority, but he notes that the body took on greater force after it started to levy heavy fines...
Last week Carlsson, 77, a professor emeritus at Sweden's University of Gothenburg, finally won a Nobel. Sharing the prize for Physiology or Medicine with him were Columbia University's Eric Kandel, 70, who laid bare the molecular foundations of learning and memory, and Rockefeller University's Paul Greengard, 74, who elucidated the chemical cascade touched off by dopamine and other neurotransmitters. In each case, the Nobel was surely long overdue and richly deserved...
...child in Poland, Anne Skorecki Levy survived the Holocaust; as a grandmother in Louisiana, she confronted ex-Klansman David Duke in his run for Governor. Powell, a Tulane University history professor, tells this tale with wonderful narrative grace and moral force. He deftly explores ethical compromises and nuances: the Levy family's decision to pass as Aryan during the war; the struggles between the assimilated Reform Jews of New Orleans, reluctant to stir up trouble; and the tight-knit "New American" club of Holocaust survivors who insisted on aggressively bearing witness against neo-Nazis...