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Inspired in part by a series of Pulitzer prizewinning articles that appeared in the Wall Street Journal last year, Congress is investigating medical tests with an eye to improving federal control. Within a few months, lawmakers will consider legislation, recommended by the Centers for Disease Control, to set up uniform proficiency standards for laboratories. At Senate subcommittee hearings on the subject last month, Democratic Senator Carl Levin of Michigan declared, "Faulty lab procedures can have devastating consequences for the unsuspecting...
Shmelyov, a member of the Institute of Economics of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, last year published an article in the Soviet journal Novy Mir that criticized efforts within the Soviet government to hinder Gorbachev's economic reforms...
...from a chicken and is so dreadfully disillusioned," wrote Sherwood Anderson in 1921, in a celebrated short story titled The Egg. Anderson's melancholy view is more apropos than ever. The poor egg, already condemned by heart specialists for its high cholesterol content, was blamed in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association for yet another scourge: food poisoning. Illness due to the bacterium Salmonella enteritidis -- vomiting, stomach cramps, diarrhea, fever and headache -- has increased sevenfold in the northeastern U.S. during the past decade, according to the Centers for Disease Control. And during a recent two-year period...
Women have traditionally been underrepresented in the Law Review, said Jean E. Engelmayer '86, a member of the journal. She said she thought the number of women on the staff did not reflect the proportional representation of female applicants...
Although female members of the journal said they do not believe the atmosphere at the Review is discrimi- natory, they said they feel in the minority...