No-name scores proposed to scrub race on UC applications
Regent Ward Connerly suggested universities should evaluate applications without names to hide race and gender. He noted anonymity could shield the ban on race based considerations, while he privately cited examples of named individuals as indicative of ethnicity.
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University of California
Ward Connerly
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Board of Regents
Willie Washington
Pablo Dias
Sacramento
Nebraska cancer mom dies after delayed treatment
Margie Janovich, 44, of Omaha, died after a 20 month battle with thyroid cancer begun during pregnancy in July 1995. She postponed treatment to protect her unborn daughter, gave birth to a healthy child, then faced aggressive cancer that spread to her breasts and lung lining despite multiple therapies. She cared for her six sons and three daughters aged 15 months to 21 years.
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Margie Janovich
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Satellite study says global warming trend confirmed
Colorado scientists Trenberth and Hurrell contend satellite temperature readings show a mild warming of the upper atmosphere from 1979 to 1995, resolving a prior cooling discrepancy caused by satellite transitions. Ground records still show a rise, but earlier data misaccounted orbit changes and sensor handovers.
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Nature
Kevin Trenberth
James Hurrell
National Center For
Trenberth
Hurrell
Twins heartened by new hearts in Yale transplant case
In New Haven, brothers Alfred and Anthony Melillo, aged 64, received heart transplants from young donors, marking a rare twin heart swap. Both men suffer from genetic cardiomyopathy, with Anthony waiting eight months and Alfred forty days for organs. Doctors cited strong family history and genetic factors in their cases.
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Tellides
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National Organ Donation Clearinghouse
Texas
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