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...that with Newt completely blowing the public-opinion battle over the government shutdown because he couldn't keep from whining about having to get off Air Force One by the back door. We need this man. We figure the only fair way to divide up the tab is to assess all press people according to how much they've written about...
GRAND FORKS, North Dakota: As the Red River continued to rise above its banks in some areas, the White House said President Clinton will tour North Dakota on Tuesday to assess the extent of the flood damage. One of his stops: Grand Forks, which lost several buildings, including the offices and newsroom of the Grand Forks Herald, after a fire raged through the area. The paper lost its entire microfilm collection, which dated back to 1879 and recorded almost all of the city's history. The firefighting effort was crippled by water as high as five feet between the buildings...
Dean Hamer is concerned enough about these dangers that he wants to restrict the use of genetic tests for homosexuality. "We believe that it would be fundamentally unethical," he and his colleagues wrote in their 1993 paper, "to use such information to try to assess or alter a person's current or future sexual orientation." Hamer has talked of patenting the relevant DNA sequences, thus preventing the commercial development of blood tests...
Still, in the absence of outcome studies that assess a plan's track record for a particular condition--breast cancer, diabetes, depression--consumers can only make a more educated guess. "We have this vanilla health-care system that is supposed to provide quality care for all types of people and for all types of ailments," says David Lansky, president of the Foundation for Accountability, "but when it comes to people being able to assess which plan is best for them, it's very difficult...
...method of defining availability is determined by looking at the percentage of women and minorities granted Ph.D.s within a particular period of time. It is, however, difficult to reach a broad consensus on how to best assess this pool. There are disagreements over the precise period of time that should elapse between receiving a Ph.D. and being counted as a candidate for tenure...