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...sure, it is legitimate for a university to be concerned about the integrity of its faculty's research. There are widely accepted criteria by which such integrity is judged: research must be reported honestly; sources must be attributed properly; informed consent must be obtained; biases must be disclosed. But these are not the criticisms directed against Dr. Mack's research. What is on trial in his case are his ideas--his willingness to consider the possibility that the numerous accounts of alien abductions may not all be products of insane delusions. He has certainly not convinced me, but surely that...
...government, but it was immediately undermined by the declarations made by peacekeeping officials on the ground in Bosnia. The senior U.N. representative, Yasushi Akashi, announced that the new force will operate under the same rules that have applied in the past and thus will undertake no actions without the consent of the Bosnian Serbs...
...troops to the new force, said flatly, "We are not going to wage war. That is not the role of the U.N." But even beyond that, he said, the kind of peacekeeping that is required can be carried out only when the combatants basically agree to it. "If the consent is not there, the U.N. will not remain," he said. Britain's Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd went further, saying the reinforcements were intended not to change the character of the U.N. force "but to increase its ability to protect itself." If the U.N.'s task becomes impossible, Hurd said...
...pilot hostage.TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompsonsays that any American action is likely to be low-key, focused on trying to recover the pilot safely if he survived the crash. Writes Thompson: "The problem is, we've got ourselves into this situation where we can't do anything without the consent of our NATO allies, who have all these people of their own on the ground. In addition, Clinton does not seem prepared to send in ground troops...
...investigations have proceeded, Najarian has suffered one blow after another. In 1993 he was forced out as chairman of Minnesota's surgery department. Last year he signed a consent decree with the FDA that prohibits him from conducting trials of experimental drugs. Then last February, shortly after a faculty panel found him guilty of academic misconduct, Najarian abruptly resigned his faculty post...