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...after a 10-year fight. During that time, I learned much about its diagnosis, treatment and funding. Advancements in diagnosis and the array of treatments that are available to women with certain characteristics of the disease are heartening. However, there is a paucity of funding. We need to better understand priorities and must demand that our representatives do too. Members of Congress can work to more effectively define funding priorities while realizing that their efforts affect more than just government agencies, corporations and re-election opportunities. We are not dealing with numbers; we are dealing with people's lives. Stefan...
...We’re very sophisticated as a society in deciphering visual art,” King said. “But you can fall out of a habit of visualizing by reading,” he cautioned. “You don’t understand that language once you fall out of it.” King, who has seen a number of his novels grace the big screen, added that big-time film producers who tell their stories through a vehicle of images and sound are often restricted by Hollywood’s expectations. RIGHT TO WRITE...
...editors: Kathy Lin wrote a excellent analysis on Asian diversity in her article “Color and Variation” (column, Oct. 10). It helped me to understand the many misconceptions about Asian achievement in America and in particular in American higher education. Her legwork in breaking down the different ethnic groups of Asian students should be required reading by all college admissions officers. As a college admissions consultant with several Asian clients it helped me immensely to understand that lumping all Asians together under one banner is dangerous and misleading. I would venture to say that most Asian...
...been pretty well trashed. That didn’t need to happen,” he said. “If our leaders are going to lead, particularly in the military where we’re going to go into countries with force, they have an obligation to understand the culture they’re going into...I don’t think there are any leaders at the moment who have done that...
...theme, we know, answers the question for us. It is “love,” and it is both universal and contingent. Rorty’s book is an excellent analysis of literature as contingency, but he is still too much of an academic philosopher to understand the flip side of the literary coin...