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WASHINGTON: The latest study to conclude that silicone breast implants do not cause severe illness could be the strongest verdict yet in favor of their manufacturers, reports TIME medical expert Christine Gorman. National Cancer Institute research gives the implants a "clean bill of health" as far as cancer and other diseases are concerned ? even though they frequently leak silicone throughout the body...
...will China's new moderate president cope with this historical revisionism? "Jiang will try to hold the line," says TIME's Asia expert Oscar Chiang. "If he fully reinstates Zhao, it would be a refutation of Deng Xiaoping, and the party hard-liners won't allow that." One compromise would be to rehabilitate Zhao while maintaining that the protests constituted a "counter-revolutionary rebellion" that needed to be crushed. But as Chiang points out, even the slightest nod to Zhao would be a sign of changing times in Beijing...
...Vice President was not aware that money was being designated for the federal hard money account," DNC spokeswoman Amy Weiss Tobe said. Will the shrugging defense do the trick? TIME's campaign finance expert Michael Weisskopf says it might. "This will focus some more pressure on Janet Reno to name an independent investigator," he said, "but I think the explanation by Weiss Tobe is probably persuasive." So Al won't be sweating it out with the special prosecutors just...
...organization and, with stark simplicity, called it the Project on Death in America. Soros wrote it a check for $15 million. "It was an extraordinary experience," says Dr. Kathy Foley, who is PDIA's director as well as a professor of neurology at Cornell University Medical College and an expert on the treatment of pain. "Most of us were used to groveling for money as physicians, and suddenly someone says, 'Here's $15 million. Improve the care of the dying...
Trials involving science often pit expert against expert, with lawyers on each side trying to expose the scientists on the other side as charlatans or proponents of "junk" theories. In 1993, however, the Supreme Court ruled in Daubert v. Merrell Dow that judges should act as gatekeepers, assessing the validity of the experts who take their stand. "Before Daubert, judges were unwilling to prevent testifying," says Joseph Sanders, a University of Houston law professor. "Now they're more willing to exclude experts." The results are dramatic, even pivotal, in cases involving breast implants. Last year Judge Robert Jones of Oregon...