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December 16, 1999

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ medical students training at distant sites gather at Virtual Clinic to work together on case studies

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ (Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ) third-year medical students training at distant family medicine sites across a five-state region regularly report to the Red, Blue or Yellow Clinic. These are not actual patient-care settings, but divisions of a Web-based Virtual Clinic, a new learning tool for medical students.

December 15, 1999

The ultimate gift of life: Healthy baby born to woman kept on life support for seven weeks at Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Medical Center; organs donated to four recipients

A pregnant woman maintained on mechanical life support for seven weeks after being declared brain-dead has given birth to a baby boy at Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Medical Center in Seattle.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ law professor wins international prize for essay on the nature of time

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ law professor Louis Wolcher has received a $15,800 prize in a unique global essay competition involving 2,481 writers from 123 countries. Wolcher’s philosophical treatise on Eastern and Western concepts of time, entitled “Time’s Language,” took second place overall in the first-ever International Essay Prize Contest.

December 3, 1999

Puget Sound residents had misgiving about WTO even before conference began, survey finds

Even before protests and arrests disrupted this week’s World Trade Organization conference, Puget Sound residents were skeptical of the WTO’s mission and believed the organization wasn’t listening to the public and didn’t care what it thought, according to a Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ survey.

U.S. vs. Europe: Forum to air disputes over genetically modified crops, hormone-treated beef and other WTO sticking points

A forum entitled “The United States, the European Union and WTO: Genetically Modified Products, National Sanctions, British Beef, and American Hormones,” will take place from 6:10 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ’s Kane Hall 120.

Feeling Depressed? New Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ study might assist you, others to find an effective treatment for America’s most common mental health problem

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ researchers are looking for between 200 and 300 Seattle-area residents to volunteer as subjects for a new study testing the effectiveness of state-of-the-art treatments for depression.

November 16, 1999

Earthquake engineers gather at Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ for briefing on Taiwan temblor, discussion of safety issues and implications for the Seattle area

A reconnaissance team of Washington engineers who visited Taiwan after the devastating Sept. 21 earthquake to observe and evaluate damage will present their findings and discuss lessons learned during a briefing at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ.

November 12, 1999

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ reaches across globe to pioneer interdisciplinary study program on human rights

Imagine sitting down to these exam questions:
„h Are human rights universal or culturally bound?
„h Do rights exist prior to law?
„h Which should prevail: human rights or national sovereignty?

Tough as those questions are, they?ve been dominating the headlines and inspired the creation of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ?s trail-blazing Human Rights Education & Research Network (HRERN).