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...approach to diseases in general has been sort of haphazard," says Donna Brogan, chairperson of the biostatistics division at Emory University's School of Public Health and a member of the research task force for the National Breast Cancer Coalition. By organizing their own scientific meetings, advocates help assess the state of research for a particular disease and look for areas that need strengthening. "That's unique to them," says NIH director Healy. "They are setting bold, far-reaching goals...
...money could ever fully compensate for the havoc wreaked by the Valdez spill, but the record $1.025 billion in fines and damages imposed on Exxon by a federal judge last October should have provided the state and federal governments with an extraordinary opportunity to take further protective measures, assess remaining problems and mollify resentful citizens. Instead, the deal has touched off a chorus of outrage from residents and environmentalists, who wanted a minimum of $2 billion, and has ignited a fierce debate over how best to spend the sum. Says biologist Rick Steiner of the University of Alaska: "The last...
...economic forum last week in New York City, TIME asked a panel of leading economists and marketplace experts to assess the Bush and Clinton programs. Such analysis is a bit like looking at clouds, since both candidates offer wispy details and imaginative arithmetic. Their vagueness is not surprising, as the federal deficit has made it almost impossible to craft a stimulative economic plan in which the numbers add up without aggravating the red ink. "They really don't have solutions because the problems are so complicated nobody can solve them, not even within the next 10 years," said the Boston...
...arrived in Sacramento, Perot told a TV interviewer that the chances he would actually run were "very remote, not even worth talking about." His most zealous supporters, however, refuse to take what Perot now says at face value. Says Orson s followers, he said, would monitor the candidates to assess how well they toe the policy lines he has drawn. If Bush and Clinton both satisfy him -- an unlikely prospect -- Perot would stand down. If only one does, he might endorse that candidate. If they both fail his test, he implied, he might heed the calls from remaining fans...
...Harvard insiders say they are not making predictions simply because Rudenstine has not yet set an exact target. They point out that the president continues to meet, as he has over the past year, with top deans and vice presidents to assess the University's long-term needs and set an official goal...