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...been handed quickly began to spread. The fact that he would not have seemed out of place chairing a local Rotary Club meeting was, to many, a mark in his favor, another triumph of America's common man. But the nation in 1974 faced a number of complex and seemingly intractable problems. The cold war had grown even chillier after the Soviet support of the abortive October 1973 Arab attack on Israel. Then there were the agonizingly slow withdrawal of U.S. forces from Vietnam, high inflation coupled with rising unemployment, and the aftershocks of the OPEC-engineered oil crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gerald Ford: Steady Hand for a Nation in Crisis | 12/27/2006 | See Source »

...doesn't translate into real breakthroughs for patients," says Kennedy. The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, which represents the drug industry, fired back that the GAO report only confirms that developing new drugs has become a more expensive, difficult and risky exercise for manufacturers. "Researchers are tackling increasingly complex diseases using new tools-such as genomics, proteomics and nanotechnology-that will take years to bear fruit," says PhRMA Senior Vice President Ken Johnson, adding that "more than 2,000 new medicines are in development, including 646 medicines for cancer, 146 for heart disease and stroke, 77 for AIDS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Little Bang for the Buck in Drug Research? | 12/27/2006 | See Source »

...squad on the ground that day overreacted and has brought dishonor to the Corps. "It looks like these Marines lost it and if that is the case, the Corps doesn't accept that," says one senior Marine officer. Others point out that Iraq is the one of the most complex battlefields the American military has ever fought in-and tried to do it with too few troops. "What do we expect of young Marines who are executing a failed strategy in a place where civilians routinely hide the enemy?" asked one Marine officer who served in Iraq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The First Haditha Charges | 12/20/2006 | See Source »

Namely, the backyard of 213 families living in the Charlesview Apartments, the low-income housing complex that currently stands in the way of Harvard’s plans for expansion across the river into Allston. Charlesview has been the backyard of approximately 600 residents for 35 years, but whether we’re getting down at the Game or imagining where a “Welcome to Harvard-Allston” sign would look best, it is easy to forget that Charlesview, like the rest of lower Allston, is a place where people live...

Author: By Michael Gould-wartofsky and Kelly L. Lee | Title: Homes Before Harvard | 12/18/2006 | See Source »

...raised, where community has been forged, and a generation of people have made lives for themselves and their loved ones. Surely, it is also a place in need of renovation after years of neglect by its owners. Harvard could simply be a good neighbor and help them renovate the complex...

Author: By Michael Gould-wartofsky and Kelly L. Lee | Title: Homes Before Harvard | 12/18/2006 | See Source »

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