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...paid travel. Until the scandal broke, it was fine for your Representative to take an all-expenses-paid trip to Pago Pago on behalf of the Alaskan Coconut Packing Council and do virtually no work upon arrival. Lobbyists proposed, arranged and paid for those trips--then went along to chalk up quality time. Now, under almost every proposal, Republican and Democrat, the junkets would be history. Chance of passage: 99%. Likely work-around: lawmakers will try to carve out an exemption for "educational" trips sponsored by policy groups and friendly foreign countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 6 Ways to Fix K street | 1/17/2006 | See Source »

...each other really nicely.”All four professors attend each lecture, where they sit among the students, Tse adds. The professors have a close affinity with many students. The relationship is reflected in multiple Facebook groups, including several focusing on the professors and one dedicated to the chalk they use to draw amino acids on their Science Center blackboard.The class boasts a team of 25 teaching fellows leading 33 sections. The course also features four formal labs in the field of pharmaceutical research, which Heller cited as “one of the strongest intersections between [biology...

Author: By Elaine Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Looking for Links In the Life Sciences | 1/11/2006 | See Source »

...Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) officers were sent to the Yard to investigate a report of vandalism. Police arrived to discover the John Harvard statue had been marked up with chalk. Although police logs did not divulge the content of these late-night writings, the incident noticeably took place the night before The Game...

Author: By Robin M. Peguero, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Police Log | 12/6/2005 | See Source »

...Akunyili took over her post in 2001, a staggering 80% of the medications sold there were deficient in one way or another. Some contained less of the active ingredient than was specified on the label. Others were past their expiration date. Some were filled with inert lactose or powdered chalk. Still others were poison. In 1990 more than 100 Nigerian children died from a painkiller that had been made with toxic ethylene glycol instead of propylene glycol. In 2003 phony adrenaline led to the deaths of three children undergoing surgery in the city of Enugu. Akunyili's sister Vivian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drug Warrior | 10/31/2005 | See Source »

...Chalk it up, say Floridians, to blow burnout. With hurricanes hatching like Caribbean cockroaches, the state has had to gird for at least eight major storms in the past 14 months-four since June. "You just can't expect people to be on edge, to be ready for war, all the time," said doctor's aide Mike Dorsainbille, 31, as he waited for gas in Pompano Beach, in hard-hit Broward County. But any criticism of Florida paled in comparison to the scrutiny put on the Federal Emergency Management Agency, for which Wilma was a chance to redeem itself after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Florida: Just When You Thought It Was Safe... | 10/29/2005 | See Source »

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