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...alarm, and especially for his proposed cure, Lederman was not immediately overwhelmed by acclaim -- either from fellow scientists or from Congress. The Bush Administration had already requested a generous increase in the science budget, critics noted. Lederman's call for a doubling of financial support at a time of severe budgetary restraint, they charged, made scientists seem petty and self-serving and suggested that they are out of touch with the country's political realities. In fact, only last year congressional budgeteers agreed to limit spending growth for domestic discretionary funding, in effect making science a "zero-sum" category. This...
...critics, the book exhorts doctors and nurses actively to abet the "self-deliverance" of the terminally ill. Author Derek Humphry contends that such assistance is common but tacit. "Part of good medicine is to help you out of this life as well as help you in," he argues. "When cure is no longer possible and the patient seeks relief through euthanasia, the help of physicians is most appropriate...
...SHINING EXAMPLE. Doug Danziger, Fort Lauderdale's conservative vice mayor who has crusaded against college students on spring break, topless bars and adult bookstores, resigned last week after his name allegedly turned up on the client list of a woman who says she tried to cure her nymphomania by having sex with different...
...thousands of nuclear weapons, but that they had thousands of nuclear weapons pointed at the U.S. And since no arms-control regime ever seriously proposed reducing nuclear weapons below the level needed to wipe out American society at least once, no arms-control regime could ever, even in principle, cure our nuclear nightmare...
...This is not a Republican idea, and the space station is not a Republican project. The strong bipartisan vote in the House proved that. But to answer your question, if we spent the space-station dollars directly on education or housing or whatever, it still wouldn't cure the problems of cities or schools. There isn't enough money in the NASA budget to cure those problems. If NASA were cannibalized that way, you wouldn't have a space station or a leadership role in space. We also wouldn't have touched the pressing problems of schools, housing or cities...