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Even more worrisome is the Army's not so foolproof method of detecting cocaine use, which consists of descending on a unit without warning to administer urine tests on a spot basis. The tests are supposed to detect the presence of benzoylecgonine, a component of the drug. The system, like many an effective military operation, relies on surprise. Unfortunately, because of lax security in scheduling the tests, that element is not always present. Says one troubled officer: "In some places the troops find out through the grapevine about a urine test five days ahead of time...
Several Medical School professors are seeking to introduce a genetic screening process to New England Medical Center that may detect fatal birth defects during prenatal care...
...would still be at Harvard today," he says. Although the former associate professor of Slavic Languages--Who is described by many of his old students here as the finest teacher they have ever known--emphatically denies that he feels any bitterness towards the University, it is impossible not to detect a note of regret when he speaks of the friends he made and the students he taught in 15 years at Harvard...
...distinctions that demand clarification Strenio attacks the concept of basic competancy testing for high school diplomas on the grounds that it discriminates against students whose high school curricula weren't geared to the test. He thus ignores the point that a properly "basic" test is designed to detect severe shortcomings in the school system. And afterarguing convincingly that the tendency for schools to coach for tests rather then teach subjects is harmful, his "Beating the System" chapter heartily recomments SAT prep course plugs Stanley Kaplan by name, and adds that in prepping properly for the tests a student should pick...
...emptive strikes, and on aircraft (including perhaps a new supersonic bomber), which can scramble quickly the moment that the U.S. appears to be under attack. Because of improvements in satellite-guidance systems for submarine-launched ballistic missiles and in the technology of slow, low-flying, hard-to-detect and exceedingly accurate cruise missiles, the U.S. is approaching the point where it need not rely quite so much on its land-based missiles in order to maintain a credible deterrent...