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...Peter Hart, "but if they see her reinforcing one of their earlier negative feelings, they won't like her." Last week when leaders in the field of family law sent her a thick proposal to bring all the varied government programs on families and children under her East Wing purview, Hillary responded only by saying that she wanted to continue to be "a voice for children" -- which fits within the choose-a-cause deportment of First Ladies past...
Smith believes that the new woman's specialist should concentrate almost exclusively on preventive and primary care. "The ideal setup would be female clinics, overseen by doctors but staffed by nurses and other non-M.D. professionals," he says. Routine prenatal and pregnancy care, now the purview of the gynecologist-obstetrician, would be handled by midwives, while high- risk pregnancies and deliveries would be assigned to the appropriate specialists...
While most of the gender differences uncovered so far seem to fall under the purview of the hypothalamus, researchers have begun noting discrepancies in other parts of the brain as well. For the past nine years, neuroscientists have debated whether the corpus callosum, a thick bundle of nerves that allows the right half of the brain to communicate with the left, is larger in women than in men. If it is, and if size corresponds to function, then the greater crosstalk between the hemispheres might explain enigmatic phenomena like female intuition, which is supposed to accord women greater ability...
...little more than a government subsidy to parents who already pay private or parochial tuition for their children. Yet the Bush Administration cannot mandate the creation of alternative schools. Washington can goad and coax with the carrot of federal money, but revamping public education is largely beyond the purview of the White House and Congress...
Positions: Sawyer lists environmental protection and fighting crime and drugs among his top political priorities. Sawyer has said that administration of special educational programs, health care and bank insolvency programs should be the purview of individual federal and state agencies...