A Race Still Unfinished

Still Losing the Race?

W I got my doctorate in linguistics from Stanford University in 1993, the furthest thing imaginable to me was that, ten years later, I would be in the midst of a second career as a pundit on race issues, let alone find myself classed as a black conservative. True, in college and graduate school, I had felt frustrated and dismayed whenever a successful black of my acquaintance would go out of hi...

A new physiologic race

Treating myasthenia on consensus guide: Helpful and challenging but still unfinished business.

Myasthenia gravis (MG) is the prototypic autoimmune disease and the most gratifying because it is treatable in most cases. Although in successful clinics it is no longer considered “gravis,” it does require high doses of corticosteroids to induce remission, and immunosuppressants, such as azathioprine, mycophenolate, cyclosporine, methotrexate, or tacrolimus, for steroid-sparing treatment, even...

Unfinished feticide.

A fetus may survive an intentional interference with its intrauterine environment (1) if gestational age is mistaken and the procedure of induced abortion does not kill the fetus, (2) if a change of heart takes place after abortifacient drugs are taken and the abortion does not proceed, and (3) if a high-multiple pregnancy is reduced to a singleton or a twin pregnancy to improve the likelihood ...

Unfinished Revolution

One hundred and forty-four years elapsed between the publication of Copernicus’s De Revolutionibus, which opened the great scientific revolution of the XVII century, and the publication of Newton’s Principia, the final synthesis that brought that revolution to a spectacularly successful end. During those hundred and forty-four years, the basic grammar for understanding the physical world change...