Word: laying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...military aid because it was too little ("Peanuts," Pakistan President Zia had said weeks before). Down the drain with that went the efforts of National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, who only five weeks ago on a mission to Islamabad had attempted to convince Zia that his security and future lay with the U.S. America, offering its money and a hint of its might, had been spurned in quite embarrassing public circumstances. The result: a serious blow to U.S. international prestige...
...clear air kept Sammy awake for hours and Dina lit the matches and showed Sammy midnight flowers. Wow, said Sammy. He lay down in the dewy grass near the flowers and pulled Dina onto the grass next to him. I like to keep moving, he told her. How long have you been traveling, she asked. Three days, he said. She nodded. The sun rose...
Orlans contends the most effective way to curb the excesses associated with animal experimentation is not through more legislation, but through increased lay-person participation in the funding process, and by educating medical students on the ethical use of animals. At present, 14 universities offer courses on ethics and animals--Harvard does...
...where Harvard considers all possible risks to the subject, Dr. Hunt and Harvard's Animal Care Committee merely check to see if proper anaesthesia will be used and if there is sufficient space available in ARC. Unlike Harvard's ethics committee (which reviews research involving humans), there are no lay-people on the animal care committee. And neither NIH nor Harvard cross-examines the researcher to determine if all possible alternatives to animals have been properly considered...
...think scientists should be more accountable for the research that goes on in labs," she says. "It would be ideal to have lay-people on the research proposal committees at research institutions. This is done in Canada but is rarely done here. But scientists feel very threatened that anti-vivisectionists are going to come in and mess things up," she explains. "It will take decades to get full lay-person involvement...