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Throughout American history, there have been tremendous advances in equality and the protection of individual rights. William Rehnquist's legacy has been to halt and retard that progress. The simple and sad reality is that Americans have fewer civil liberties and civil rights because of Rehnquist's tenure on the court. --By Erwin Chemerinsky...
...Lula would not have "made it to where he is if he were a retard, as so many still try to portray him," writes Nahum Sirotsky, a veteran Brazilian journalist and former aide to Brazilian ambassadors in the United States and Israel. Which is a way of saying that the PT man understands the reality of international capital flows. Any domestic program that results in a default or an onerous restructuring of the debt will put him in an extremely difficult position to pursue the progressive policies on which he has campaigned...
...admit that I had four older siblings—John among them. While I recognized that he was not an embarrassment, my classmates and close friends could never see him as more than a burden. They casually deemed anything they found silly, stupid, or worthless as “retarded.” “That movie was so retarded.” “You are such a retard.” Worse yet was when friends acted “retarded” through gesticulation. They would bend their wrists, slap them against their chests, lower...
...answer is that Parkinson's is such a devastating disease that sufferers and their families are desperate for a cure. Drugs can alleviate the symptoms, but not retard the progressive death of brain cells. That's why fetal-cell transplants were first proposed and why some doctors were already performing the operation on patients who could afford it (cost: as much as $40,000). The researchers in the controversial study were doing what scientists are supposed to do: conduct a rigorous study to determine whether a treatment actually works...
...Wyeth-Ayerst's Enbrel, and Remicade, made by a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, which have been in use for roughly two years. Both inhibit a messenger in the inflammatory cascade known as the tumor necrosis factor (TNF). The drugs are more effective than traditional medications, and more likely to retard joint degradation. "The idea that biologics could prove effective against autoimmune disease has been firmly established by the TNF story," says Dr. H. Michael Belmont of the Hospital for Joint Diseases in New York City...