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When National Institutes of Health then-President Harold Varmus tapped Hyman for the NIMH post in 1996, Hyman was presented with a mammoth task—balancing the needs of scientists, politicians, and patients—and a $1 billion budget...
Seven Senate and House hearings in the past three weeks have offered a welter of ideas for change, including a mammoth electronic database to track the comings and goings of all foreign visitors. (Such an information bank could cost $500 million, and is drawing cries of xenophobia.) Already passed in the antiterrorism package is a measure that will triple the number of immigration agents along the 4,000-mile Canadian border guarded in some places by nothing more than orange cones. Senator Edward Kennedy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary's immigration subcommittee and a longtime champion of open borders, will...
...military campaign doesn't want the name "Operation Infinite Justice" because of its religious allusion, perhaps the mammoth investigation into the Sept. 11 terror attacks should adopt it, simply for accuracy. The name certainly fits, what with 7,000 FBI employees and countless state and local police officers following some 63,232 leads in the case. FBI Deputy Director Tom Pickard, a key figure in the case against the 1993 World Trade Center bombers, and the bureau's top man in New York, Barry Mawn, are running the investigation from Washington and two secret locations in Manhattan. Detectives and intelligence...
...that comes with a price. TIME has learned from well-informed and reliable Russian sources that Putin asked for several deal-sweeteners in an hour-long conversation with President Bush Saturday: The Taliban will be wiped out; Russia will be given higher consideration in world politics; the mammoth Soviet debt to the West will be restructured, or eventually forgotten; and the Bush administration will not nudge Putin on Chechnya...
...World Trade Center and the breaching of the Pentagon are events whose grandiosity, played and replayed in images across the world, is such that the smallness of human life, its everyday quasi-public intimacy, finds itself hard-pressed to compete. Smallness has long been endangered, of course, for mammoth buildings can generate an extraordinary sense of strength and power, a sense meted out in such words as citadel, fortress, bastion, and even tower. It is not surprising, perhaps, that the collapse of such strong buildings, such powerful symbols, has met with strong and powerful responses. I do not mean...