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...have receded in Western Europe's memory, a new generation is uneasy with the perception that the Continent's fate is not in its own hands but in those of the superpowers. There are signs that Eastern Europe too is experiencing a change. Says Rumanian-born Political Scientist Pierre Hassner, a research fellow at Paris' National Foundation of Political Science: "There is a tension between the rigid East-West strategic balance on the one hand and changing popular attitudes and life-styles on the other. The security arrangement has guaranteed four decades of peace, but people are increasingly weary...
Europe Bears its share of the blame for the current angry impasse. Resentment toward Bush has closed European ears to important arguments. Says Pierre Hassner of the Center for International Studies and Research in Paris: "The idea seems to be broadening in Europe that everything is the fault of America. I'm very afraid of the damage done when the ugly American becomes once again such a convenient excuse." Both sides need to cool it. Remembering how things were 60 years ago might help...
...Vera Hassner Sharav, the president and founder of the Alliance for Human Research Protection (AHRP), gave Koski credit for his willingness to hear differing points of view in his role at OHRP. AHRP is a non-profit group that works to raise public awareness about the use of human subjects in research...
...Vera Hassner Sharav, president of the Alliance of Human Research Protection (AHRP), a national advocacy group for participants in medical studies, said more drastic change is needed...
...Hospital in New York City. The study gave patients L-dopa, an amino acid that stimulates dopamine -- the brain's mood-regulating chemical messenger -- in order to observe psychotic breakdowns, allegedly without advising them on consent forms of the extreme discomfort and high risk of the undertaking. When Vera Hassner, an advocate for the mentally ill, complained to the project director, she received a letter that stated, "Patients may experience symptom aggravation . . . It would not be advisable to talk to patients about psychosis or relapse . . . Talking to patients about psychosis or schizophrenia might cause unnecessary anxiety . . ." At a recent congressional...