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...will take months to assess the precise damage inflicted by the spying, but a senior White House official has already declared, "These cases taken together are likely as significant as the worst hits of the past." They were at least as serious, he claimed, as the Navy's Walker-family spy ring, the sale of secrets by the National Security Agency's Ronald Pelton and the defection of former CIA Employee Edward Howard. The damage could extend far beyond matters related to the Soviets. The Moscow embassy is on the distribution list for a wide range of foreign policy material...
...loss of one adrenal gland has not presented any complications. Nor is rejection a problem, because the grafted tissue is the patient's own. Encouraged, Madrazo's team has tried the procedure on eight other patients. They are "doing well," Madrazo says, but it is too soon to assess the effects...
...Center for the Interaction of Animals and Society. "We have the gut feeling they're good for you, but how they're good and what can be done with that, we don't know." Now things are beginning to change. A variety of health professionals have started to assess rigorously pets' impact on physical and mental health. Meanwhile, the beneficiaries of programs in prisons, hospitals and nursing homes do not much care about cool science but are warmly grateful for what amounts to animal therapy. A groundbreaking study came in 1980, when researchers from the Universities of Maryland and Pennsylvania...
Hodel is not the only Government official expressing concern. Next week the Department of Energy will release a 400-page report that will examine America'svulnerability to another major energy crisis. National Security Adviser Frank Carlucci will assess the possible security threat posed by a weakened U.S. petroleum industry. At stake also is the stability of Europe and the rest of the oil-consuming world. Since oil is traded in one global market, rising U.S. imports could create a worldwide crunch...
This study is an example of a growing national trend toward increased critical evaluation of higher education. At Harvard and other universities, educators are trying to assess whether or not higher education is achieving its goals and what those goals should...