Word: walkerism
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...breast cancer, uterine cancer) compared with a watermelon-size benefit (less heart disease, less disabling osteoporosis). One should never take a medication that has theoretical benefit in the future if it decreases the quality of life in the present. But seeing a hunched-over, frail woman shuffling behind a walker has to stir the thought, What would her life be like had she been on estrogen the past 20-plus years? RICKI POLLYCOVE, M.D. San Francisco A MAJOR DISSERVICE HAS BEEN DONE TO the women of this country. The article on estrogen fed the cancer fear in women. Your report...
...Warren Court tended to cast rights in terms of one heroic litigant taking on a corrupt system and winning respect for an essentially negative liberty. The right not to be discriminated against, or not to be kept from speaking, were at the root of such great cases as Walker v. Birmingham or New York Times v. Sullivan...
...assumption of black inferiority." This, notes Ted Shaw, the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and Education Fund lawyer who represented the plaintiffs in the Jenkins case, "is probably the first time a Supreme Court Justice has questioned the reasoning in Brown." That it came from a black, says Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker, a former aide to Martin Luther King Jr., "makes me want to throw...
...that are at odds with those of most black Americans." The court will soon rule on another vital issue: whether it is constitutional to create majority black districts so that African Americans can be elected to Congress. As they await Thomas' vote, a lot of blacks besides Wyatt Tee Walker are feeling queasy all over again...
...Walker also suggests that all research anddevelopment should be relevant and focused closelyto the funding agency's mission...