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The cause of science literacy will not benefit from the work of science journlaists and editors who lack basic knowledge of their subject matter. U of A anthropologist Nancy Lovell and graduate student Aaron Dublernko recently completed a preliminary report on the bones. Starting September, budding doctors at the U of A will be taught a kinder, gentler way to deal with patients as part of major changes in the medical and oral health sciences curriculum. David Cook, chair of the curriculum committee is quoted. The U of A is one of the 16 medical schools in Canada to change its approach.