Word: mentionings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...find her anywhere on the Al Gore campaign roster. Nor is she listed in the internal campaign budget, where she appears only as "consultant." Yet the mere mention of her name has a way of rendering campaign officials nearly speechless. One offered only that she was "helping out" on "outreach." Another adviser downplayed her as a "wardrobe consultant." Sighed yet another normally chatty adviser: "I couldn't begin to talk to you about that...
While Harris' project may seem shallow, the idea of choosing an egg donor based on physical characteristics is hardly new. Several egg businesses already let clients select donors by race, weight, height, eye color or hair color, not to mention such preferences as "fine boned" and "tanning ability." Harris isn't the first to charge for eggs either: virtually all egg donors are in fact sellers, at a typical rate of between $3,000 and $5,000 per ovum, plus medical expenses. And an unnamed egg-seeking couple put an ad in several college papers last winter offering...
...factors, relatively nontoxic compounds that inhibit the growth of new capillaries. The idea behind this new class of drugs is that tumors cannot grow bigger than a few hundred thousand cells--about the size of a peppercorn--without growing their own blood-supply system. Researchers and patients, not to mention the owners of stock in half a dozen biotech companies, are eagerly awaiting results of clinical trials of antiangiogenic factors, which might be used in combination with chemotherapy to knock down big tumors and then prevent any surviving tumors from growing enough to do further damage...
...Bush does, remains hazy on teacher evaluations. Gore has said teachers should be reevaluated every five years, yet has gained the endorsement of the American Federation of Teachers by portraying Republicans as callous to the stress and demand of the teaching profession. And there seems to be little mention of student testing among all the talk of "values" and "discipline...
...called Allscripts, with help from Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft, has developed a hand-held wireless device that allows doctors to deliver your Rx straight to the pharmacist's computer. Given the rapid increase in drugs with similar names, it's a technology that could save medical careers, not to mention lives. Last week in West Texas, a court ordered cardiologist RAMACHANDRA KOLLURU to pay $225,000 to the family of a heart patient who died after receiving the wrong medication. He got Plendil instead of Isordil, because the pharmacist couldn't read what Kolluru had ordered...