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Would-be reformers are also pushing the FDA to adopt a more strenuous review of drugs after they have been approved for marketing. Such postapproval monitoring is already being tried in Canada, Britain and Sweden, where officials can tap into data from a national health-care system. The reasoning behind the push is quite straightforward. Clinical trials typically include a few thousand people and can therefore pick up only the most obvious and prevalent side effects. Once a drug enters the market, hundreds of thousands or even millions of people start using it, often for sustained periods of time -- when...
...have a ridiculous auto insurance system. Why sell auto insurance one policy at a time when we require almost everyone, by law, to buy it? States should adopt "Pay-at-the-Pump Private No-Fault Auto Insurance" plans that would collect the same premiums we currently collect -- but automatically, efficiently, at the gas pump. (Claims would be handled just as they are now, by State Farm, Allstate and the like. But they would bid for blocks of business, much as they now bid for group health insurance business.) You will be hearing more about this, because all the obvious objections...
...from? The fetus' own undescended testes. In those rare cases in which the tiny body does not respond to the hormone, a genetically male fetus develops sex organs that look like a clitoris and vagina rather than a penis. Such people look and act female. The majority marry and adopt children...
...expression to replace the Russian Cyrillic alphabet, the choice has taken on geopolitical implications. Turkey, whose switch from Arabic to Latin script 64 years ago symbolized its shift toward Western-style democracy, wants the republics to follow its lead. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia and Iran are pressuring them to adopt Arabic script -- and, they hope, a Middle Eastern point of view. Some diplomats think the West won Round 1 last week, when Azerbaijan's parliament chose the Latin alphabet...
Second, the reform of Russia is a key to the reform of the other republics. We should provide large-scale assistance only to those republics that hold free elections, protect minority rights and adopt free-market reforms. So far, only Russia has met all three conditions. By assisting Yeltsin's government, we will create an incentive for reform elsewhere. Moreover, if the free market succeeds in Russia, it will inexorably spread to the other republics. For the first time in its history, Russia will lead not by force of its arms but by force of its example...