One of the reasons the National Special Olympics chose Ames is because our community has such a great track record.

One of the reasons Rick and I wanted the opportunity was to work with really talented community members.

Unified Sports is a part of the National Games that teams Special Olympics athletes with partners without disabilities.

He really understands the athletes and would be very helpful to parents and coaches.

This issue is extremely complicated and cannot be resolved unless all parties -- the medical community, the regulatory agencies, the drug development and research communities, and patient advocates -- are willing to work together creatively and constructively to address the needs of dying patients.

In the bioethics community, this is widely understood as utterly out of the realm of coherent human subject protections and a failure in the duties of a tenured professor.