"The science is what is really pushing this issue," said Will Stoner, the regional advocacy director for the American Cancer Society.

"This decision dispels any doubts," said Reed Brody, advocacy director of Human Rights Watch.

Previously, she served as the advocacy director for the Basic Education Coalition.

Widney Brown, the advocacy director of Human Rights Watch, said that the practice "goes across cultures and across religions."

"Quite common," says Carlos Salinas, the group's advocacy director for Latin America.

Two years as business manager of the Gateway followed before he took a job as advocacy director with the University of Alberta Students' Union.

Burkhalter, the advocacy director for Physicians for Human Rights, laments: "The only thing we really know how to do well is expose.

In September, she is to become a staff lawyer at the group and the advocacy director of its Project Fair in Brooklyn.

"People are tired of stepping over bodies," the advocacy director for the Coalition for the Homeless, Keith Summa, said.

"When you arrest Pinochet, it sends a chill through the tyrants," said Reed Brody, the group's advocacy director.