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...When one branch of that structure wasn't working as it should have been, Summers acted aggressively...
...Administration, which oversees the safety of electronic devices, and the Federal Communications Commission, which regulates cell-phone radiation standards. "There is no significant new evidence in the past year that there is need for greater concern than already exists," says Russell Owen, chief of the FDA's Radiation Biology Branch. Concurs Michael Thun, the head of epidemiological research at the American Cancer Society: "If there's a risk [of cancer], it's an exceedingly small...
...kill a fungus without harming its host? Researchers are pursuing a variety of novel approaches. One Florida-based outfit, the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, is searching for antifungal compounds in a coral-encrusted black sponge found in the Indian Ocean. Merck is expected to get FDA approval this year for a novel class of antifungals derived from Spanish soil...
...Crimson, located at 14 Plympton Street, leases the space next door to a branch of the English Language Center, a private company...
Americans like to think of the third branch of government--especially the highest court in the land--as a bastion against the surgical divide in the country. The voters couldn't decide between Bush and Gore, and Congress is split between Republicans and Democrats, but as we groped for a solution to the election mess, we couldn't help looking to the courts for a wisdom that rises above the nation's two angry political camps...