Upon the signing of the Affordable Care Act on March 23, 2010, the public was promised that all US citizens would receive health care coverage. As Vice President Joe Biden put it at the signing of the…
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The result of April’s Iraqi parliament election may have been announced in mid-May, but there is still no sign of compromise among the deeply divided parties and blocs. Many of prime minister Nouri al-Maliki’s…
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Everything around you is made of elements that scientists have studied in quite some detail over the last 200 years. But all that understanding breaks down when these elements are subjected to high pressure…
Our ability to grasp and manipulate objects relies on feedback from our sense of touch. Without these signals from the hand, we would have trouble performing even the most basic activities of daily living…
A method for restoring feeling and action to amputees and others who have lost their sense of touch has been established through research published in Proceedings of National Academy of Science (PNAS…
Since it was first published in 1952, the DSM has been the has been the diagnostic bible for many psychiatrists. Each time the manual is updated, new conditions are introduced, often amid much controversy…
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Professor of Marketing, University of Chicago
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Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law, University of Chicago
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Assistant Professor of Radiation and Cellular Oncology, University of Chicago
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Pozen Visiting Professor, Human Rights Scholar, University of Chicago
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Postdoctoral Scholar in Paleontology, University of Chicago
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Professor Emeritus, Department of Medicine Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Committee on Molecular Metabolism Committee of Clinical and Translational Science, University of Chicago
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Assistant Professor of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, University of Chicago
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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago
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Lecturer, University of Chicago
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Assistant Professor of Radiation and Cellular Oncology, University of Chicago
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Principal Researcher at the Center for Decision Research, University of Chicago
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Senior lecturer, University of Chicago
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Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago
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Leo Spitz Distinguished Service Professor of International Law, Ludwig and Hilde Wolf Research Scholar, Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago
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Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Chicago
