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...with civilian space exploration. The specifics of the plan - which include the somewhat unlikely scenario of the U.S. supplying North Korea with a civilian rocket program - are less important than the overall picture. Washington insisted it needed to build its National Missile Defense program by 2005 in order to counter a purported threat from North Korea; Putin's out to show that there is no North Korean threat. Not only that, earlier this week he visited Beijing, where he and President Jiang Zemin vowed to fight together against a U.S. missile program they believe undermines their security. And the energetic...
...debate begins in earnest this week, when the FDA conducts hearings on requests by Merck & Co., maker of Mevacor, and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., manufacturer of Pravachol, to sell lower-dose versions of their cholesterol-lowering products over the counter (OTC). If the FDA approves the switch, it may unleash a flood of similar requests from other drugmakers...
Some health advocates have begun pushing for a new category of drugs--under-the-counter medicines--that would fall between the prescription and OTC categories. Customers would have to ask a pharmacist for such drugs, like melatonin, and discuss their proper use. That's how it's done in Canada, says Dr. Ray Woolsey, chairman of the pharmacology department at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington. "Right now we have just an on-off switch for drugs--it's either over the counter or prescription," Woolsey says. "But for many drugs it would be better if we had a step...
...system, since critics had pointed out that the tests was primed to succeed by eliminating the most basic of decoys from the equation. Scientific critics have argued that the system has an inherent inability, in battlefield conditions, to distinguish an enemy warhead from a cone-shaped traffic beacon. Advocates counter that the tests are simply trying to establish whether the system can walk before trying to make it run. It doesn't help their case, though, that the interceptor system isn't even managing to stay on its feet...
...many women have said my pounding on about how the first priority in their lives ought to be the child has helped them. That pounding was met by some negativity at first, but now people say their lives are just elevated by doing what seems so simple but is counter to what's going on in society...