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...will also be clean. And at this point athletes have no such confidence. If, however, every single athlete is bound by the rules of some legitimate authority figure - i.e., other than the IOC-run World Anti-Doping Agency, currently the reigning arbiter of drug policy - there might be some impetus for clean competition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Is the Olympics on Drugs | 9/8/2000 | See Source »

...notion that developed countries could do more to subsidize the cost of drugs was given impetus by a study reported in Durban last week. Such aid has been dismissed in part on the grounds that patients on these medicines need more monitoring than local health officials can possibly provide. But pilot projects in Ivory Coast, Senegal and Uganda have proved that even poor patients can stick reasonably well to a regimen without constant supervision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Little Hope, Less Help | 7/24/2000 | See Source »

...technology and its potential effects on teaching were the major impetus behind the replacement, said Dean for Research and Technology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Paul C. Martin...

Author: By Tova A. Serkin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Guidelines Further Restrict Professors' Outside Activities | 7/14/2000 | See Source »

...their ballot for a non-New Yorker (And let that be the least of their problems with Clinton). But this may not be such a bad thing. New York politics are interesting again. There's a real and important issue to discuss and the race is receiving attention. The impetus behind the political excitement? Resentment, skepticism and dislike. The result? An energized, live and fluctuating electorate...

Author: By Jordana R. Lewis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: United, We Scorn | 7/7/2000 | See Source »

...anxious to see technology improve: medicine and hard-core pornography. And since I'm not sick yet, I'm pretty focused on the porn thing. Luckily I am not alone in my stunted vision of utopia. The desire for newer, better smut has long been a major impetus behind technological progress: VCRS, DVDS, Web development and I believe X-ray glasses were all spurred by prurient desires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Cybersex Be Better Than Real Sex? | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

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