Word: control
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...Methods: The first germ sample taken became the control, the gold standard against which the rest of the samples were measured. What better benchmark to use than the inside of a reporter's mouth? Between excellent oral hygiene habits, good health and minimal cursing tendencies, how much cleaner...
...until at least 8 p.m. They work six days a week, 60 hours a week. They are allowed one bathroom break each morning and another at night. They are denied clean drinking water and clean air. They face forced overtime virtually everyday. They are forced to take birth control pills and pregnancy tests and are fired if they become pregnant. They are fired for saying the word "union." They live in shacks. They are as young...
...everyone agrees. The Food and Drug Administration currently exercises almost total control over the information flow from clinical trials, and while biotech companies certainly don't want their human research subjects to die, they do want to keep a tight lid on their proprietary research. "This is a highly commercial undertaking," says TIME correspondent Dick Thompson, "and most of the tests to date have failed." Still, companies that do hit on the right combination are spinning so much genetic straw into pure gold, and they don't want their competitors learning Rumplestiltskin's secrets on their dime...
Still fuming over the failure of gun control legislation to pass through Congress this summer, President Clinton has decided to take a page from the states' anti-tobacco playbook. The White House announced Tuesday that, along with the Department of Housing and Urban Development, it would sue gun manufacturers on behalf on HUD tenants. HUD chief exec Andrew Cuomo hit the morning TV news circuit Wednesday to say that his agency is riding shotgun on the suit because public housing residents are the principal victims of gun violence, both in terms of shootings and the climate of fear they live...
...that promote crime-friendly features like fingerprint-proof handles. But the White House isn't necessarily after gun manufacturers' wallets. "While a big money settlement like the one with tobacco would be nice," notes TIME senior political writer Adam Cohen, "I think the President really wants behavioral control." That includes manufacturing safer guns, such as "smart guns," which can only be fired by their owners. With this kind of pressure coming to bear, the gunmakers' best shot at minimizing the damage may be to swallow hard and take a seat at the bargaining table...