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...Mayor Francis H. Duehay '55 defended Healy, saying the manager's "undeniably positive record demonstrates the benefit of continuity...
...crop in order to plant their fields the following year. Monsanto insists that weak patent protection in many of these countries makes a technology like Terminator especially important. But that argument carries little weight in parts of the world where food bowls are going empty. "This technology brings no benefit to farmers," says Hope Shand, research director of RAFI...
Originally designed to shield employee benefit plans from frivolous but potentially crippling lawsuits, ERISA evolved over time to protect HMOs from liability suits by anyone--except Medicare and Medicaid recipients, church officials and government employees like Goodrich. Others can go to court, but at most they are entitled to recover the cost of the care that their HMO refused to reimburse. Not much consolation...
After reading your articles on biotechnology [THE FUTURE OF MEDICINE, Jan. 11], I realized that for better or for worse, genetic engineering is now a permanent fixture in our daily life. Its potential to benefit society is great. However, many have decided that genetic engineering is unethical and immoral. We should remember that any knowledge can be used for evil and unethical purposes. It's not the field of genetic engineering that's unethical or ethical but how we choose to make use of the new scientific developments. ANDREW MCCONNON, age 15 Brampton...
When people who do look to Washington for help don't get it, the news travels. Donna Newkirk's eyes flood as she tells how her 45-year-old husband Randy was killed in an accident last year. She received a $255 death benefit from the federal Social Security Administration--exactly $5 more, she discovered, than her grandmother got 31 years ago when her husband died. "I was absolutely stunned. I mean, that didn't even buy embalming fluid," she says. "It was like getting a dime tip after you've worked for an hour for a table...