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Easley isn't the only Governor feeling helpless. After a decade of good times, most state governments are being forced to either slash budgets, spend their savings or raise taxes. So far, 17 states have dealt with shortfalls...
Wilson's Sociobiology was at once enormously influential and hugely controversial. Its first 26 chapters, which dealt with the social systems of nonhuman species, were widely praised as one of the century's signal scientific achievements. Its 27th chapter, which applied the same analysis to human behavior and culture, was harshly--and sometimes violently--attacked. At a 1978 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, an impassioned dissenter emptied a pitcher of ice water...
...Kennedy remained silent for several minutes. Then he blurted, "Why in hell didn't we know about it?" Clifton responded that out of more than 40 contingency plans he had read for Berlin he could not recall a single one that dealt with the possible construction of a barrier...
...There was a time in my primitive past when I dealt with mice by setting out the ancient instruments of death - the medieval cheese-baited mouse-whackers that terminate the hungry midnight rodent like the Inquisition nailing a Cathar. In bed, I would hear a trap going off in the middle of the night: THWACK! A little extinction in another part of the house. In the morning, I would dispose of the carnage...
...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 recording of minutes of a meeting. Frustrated critics say what is needed is a regulatory middle ground...