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Roche volunteered for a trial in which she took hexamethonium, a compound not currently approved by the FDA for use in humans. In these cases, the FDA requires that researchers obtain the agency's approval before administering such compounds. But because of the huge number of academic trials and the accompanying paperwork, the FDA had got into the habit of quietly discouraging universities from applying for approval, assuming that safety issues could be dealt with by the universities. Then, in 1999, the feds abruptly cracked down, stopping human research at Duke University Medical Center. One infraction they cited: the improper...
...highest-profile asylum cases China has seen. For the Jangs, it worked out. The UNHCR's chief representative in Beijing, Colin Mitchell, said it would have been "unthinkable" to repatriate the family. But if Moon's gambit forces China to post just a few soldiers outside the compound?or 100,000 at the border?the next family to arrive might have to eat its poison...
Round a curve on a winding road in Saint Romain au Mont d'Or, a medieval village 9 km north of Lyons, and you come upon a fortress-like compound straight out of a James Bond movie. Built in the 16th century as a way station for horse-drawn carriages, the three-hectare domain features a helicopter landing pad, a sensor-based thermography security system, 130 computers and seven plasma screens for videoconferencing...
...threats, slaps, intimidation and violence, China's Communist Party has broken Falun Gong, the organization that amazed the country by claiming tens of millions of followers?and stunned the government by bringing, on a few days' notice, 10,000 practitioners to the pavement in April 1999 outside the compound that houses China's top leaders. As recently as last winter, dozens arrived in Tiananmen Square nearly every day to protest the crackdown touched off by that show of grit and numbers. By contrast, on the recent second anniversary of the massive April protest, only 30 people reached the square. Most...
MAKING THE TOWER LEAN BACK In recent decades, forces pulling the tower askew began to compound each other. Soil continued to give way underneath, while stress increased on the stones on the downward side at the base of the second level. A panel studied several ideas before selecting a low-tech but effective solution...