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...months, and security measures at military facilities had been stepped up. Troubling long-range strategic questions also demand answers. Is the rule of the royal House of Saud in more danger than the West suspected? Does the presence of about 5,000 U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia bolster or undercut stability in the land? Could it go the way of Iran? Its future matters immensely because it produces 8 million...
...shore up the condition of the family, to bolster the idea of commitment to family, we have to show the way from the ground up, not the top down. Politicians who advertise themselves as profamily too often are more interested in dividing the electorate than they are in healing the fractures in society...
...bolster their moves to the middle, both parties are also appealing to the undecided directly. Labor officials wrote to each of 300,000 party members asking them to name any wavering voter they knew. The party has signed up 300 reserve army officers to phone personally each of the identified floaters to try to convince them to vote Labor. The Likud is adopting a similar program, and has created a Website on the Internet to try to reach and persuade the agnostic...
Doctors are concerned that an anti-impotence pill could be subject to widespread abuse. Reports indicate that some Hollywood bedroom athletes have already tapped an underground market for an injectable erection drug. The danger is that otherwise healthy men will take sildenafil to bolster their sexual performance and then become psychologically addicted, unable to achieve an erection without...
Joint ventures with foreign firms could bolster Cuba's credibility in the global biotech marketplace. While Cuban institutions conduct clinical trials of vaccines and drugs and informally follow U.S. guidelines for field-testing recombinant organisms, the perception persists that Cuba sometimes releases its products prematurely. Recently, for example, scientists at the Citrus Institute developed a monoclonal antibody to detect tristeza, a lethal virus that threatens to devastate the Caribbean citrus industry. However, although the antibody works well in Cuba, it is being offered to countries whose crops may be infected with different strains...