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Healy is now entrusted with the world's most unusual biomedical-research center. No other institution houses as many biomedical researchers on a single campus. "It's the linchpin of biomedical research," says Yale medical school dean Leon Rosenberg. Last year alone, NIH scientists or their associates on university campuses began the first federally sanctioned gene therapy on a human, located the cystic fibrosis gene, developed a drug to reduce paralysis from spinal-cord injuries and demonstrated that the drug AZT prolongs life in AIDS patients...
...years the U.S. has tried to convince the rest of the world that its dropping of the bombs that incinerated Hiroshima and Nagasaki was an aberration. What's more, the linchpin in Washington's strategy to limit the spread of atomic weapons is a formal promise never to use them against a non- nuclear-armed state. If the U.S. violates its own policy to nuke Iraq, which by all indications does not yet have the Bomb, other countries might rush to develop atomic arms and possibly to use them. At the same time, revulsion over America...
...while a Senator, including loans and real estate investments that went unreported on his financial- disclosure forms. Thus far there is no evidence that Chiles is guilty of anything more than sloppy recordkeeping. But Nelson is trying to sow doubt in voters' minds about his opponent's integrity, the linchpin of Chiles' campaign. In response, Chiles crashed a Nelson press conference in Tallahassee last month and angrily accused his opponent of smear tactics. "If you've decided you want to be Governor so bad you've got to destroy my character, , then I feel sorry for you," Chiles said...
...fallout of the sanctions is Turkey, which had been getting about half its oil from Iraq. A poor country, Turkey earned as much as $250 million a year in pipeline fees from Iraq, which is among its largest trading partners. Because the location of Turkey makes it a linchpin in the strategy to isolate Saddam, its worries have been taken seriously. Kuwait's Emir has offered to compensate the Turks for most if not all of their financial damages, which Ankara estimates will come to $2.5 billion annually. Because Turkey is so vulnerable to Saddam's wrath, Secretary of State...
...linchpin of Spence's plan was the relaxation of the rigid system by which departments had previously been alloted tenured posts, a system known for the Harvard mathematician who developed it in the 1950s...