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...risk to smaller departments. There's nothing in his history of publication suggesting as much. And to anyone who has ever worked with Masten, studied with him, heard him speak at professional events, exchanged writing with him or sat down in his office, the notion that this individual is dicey as either scholar or citizen is so contrary to the evidence as to offend judgment...
...Raleigh, N.C., via Cincinnati and at 4:10 p.m. the next day was on his way to his office on Long Island. He had traveled all four legs on Comair's 50-seat Canadair Regional Jets. He was thrilled, a feeling that commuter-airline passengers usually get only in dicey weather. "I have some reservations when I'm told I'm flying a Delta Connection flight," said Paffenroth, uttering the dreaded words that often indicate a slow, noisy, cramped trip in a turboprop. But for him this flight is preferable even to one on a bigger but crowded Delta...
...Reproductive Biology Associates clinic holds up, women could freeze eggs while in their early twenties, when they are the most fertile, and have their children much later in life. While this frees women from many of the biological constraints that currently make having children later in life a dicey proposition, the generational and societal hurdles involved in raising a child born to a 60-year-old mother may be harder to overcome...
...work for Molten Metal Technology, a Massachusetts environmental-technology company, hit the trifecta, bringing cash to the firm, funds to the Clinton-Gore campaign and special financial rewards to Knight. It was a dicey political mixture that landed him in the sights of not only the Justice Department but also Representative Tom Bliley's Commerce Committee and Senator Fred Thompson's Governmental Affairs Committee, which will take his deposition this week...
...Sound dicey? TIME medical writer Christine Gorman says the deal may have already devalued the seal: "It's when money is changing hands that we start questioning the ethics behind this kind of agreement." Gorman notes that some years ago the American Heart Association launched a more ambitious endorsement plan, only to scrap it because it was too controversial. So who do you turn to for unbiased product information? Try Consumer Reports, which rejects endorsement deals, says Gorman...