Word: fallen
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...CONGRESS ISN'T LIKELY to approve reparations for black people--not this Congress, anyway--but, just now, pop culture has fallen in love with the idea. In movies, the critically laureled Far from Heaven has a restless '50s housewife fall in love with her noble black gardener. On Broadway, the musical Hairspray is wowing 'em with its perky parable of interracial love set at a teen dance party in 1962 Baltimore. On TV, NBC's American Dreams makes Dick Clark's Bandstand a focus for the conflicted feelings whites in Philadelphia had for blacks circa...
...Rokke described the “thousands and thousands” of contaminated vehicles all over Iraq, Kuwait, Bosnia and Kosovo which have yet to be cleaned. He himself now has lung and kidney problems while he claims that many other members of his clean-up team have subsequently fallen ill or are dying of cancer. Rokke’s conclusion? “If you can’t clean it up, don?...
...military disagrees with and actively disputes any suggestion that anybody has fallen ill because of DU-tipped weapons. In the 1990s, for instance, Dr. Asaf Durakovic, a resident radiation expert at the Pentagon, attempted to study Gulf War veterans with radiation poisoning. He says that his superiors “told me to stop the research…in my best interests and in the interests of my career.” But Durakovic pursued his controversial research and found excessive amounts of U-236 in the body fluids and organs of his patients. Durakovic says that other physicians studying...
...more expensive than ever. It takes on average 15 years to bring a drug to market from inception. The cost of developing a drug averaged $168 million in 1991, $365 million in 1997 and is now $650-$800 million. One result is that new drugs in the pipeline have fallen off dramatically, even though companies are getting bigger. In 1987 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had 60 new drug applications; in 2000 it had just 30. "The bottom line is that it's really hard to do," says Ross Williamson, an analyst at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young...
ROWLEY: There's no doubt that the lowest moment was 9/11. The towers hadn't fallen yet, and we were trying to finally get permission from headquarters to seek a search warrant [to get into the computer of Zacarias Moussaoui, who was indicted last December as a Sept. 11 co-conspirator]. This agent [said to me], "This is going to be just like the inquiry at Pearl Harbor. We are going to have to tell the truth...