Word: mikulski
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...foreign policy, whose lack of strategic vision matters less to him than her muscular instincts and ability to talk like the popular professor she once was. When he was trying to make up his mind whom to choose, he kept recalling a conversation with Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski, who lobbied hard for Albright. A lot of diplomats may grasp the complexities of Bosnia, she told the President, but only Albright could explain why we were there in a way that Mikulski's late mother the grocer could understand...
Outside of scientific circles, basic research is oftentimes unheard of and considered "curiosity-driven activities,"as Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) put it. That phrase evokes images of mad scientists pouring together chemicals and creating technological break-throughs such as flubber (flying rubber), as in the 1961 movie "The Absent-Minded Professor." What the phrase ignores is that basic research provides much of the knowledge for cures today. In the very same section of Time that depreciates basic research, the Telomere theory is described, a new theory of aging. This theory suggests that aging is a result of the progressive...
MUGGED. BARBARA MIKULSKI, 59, U.S. Senator; in front of her Baltimore home. As feisty on the street as she is on the Senate floor, Mikulski struggled with her attacker. She received a dislocated hand, he $40 and some traveler's checks...
...There is an awful lot that the governmentcould be doing to support new technology forhelping the manufacturing base," Matthews says."Jobs are the bottom line. As Senator [Barbara A.]Mikulski [(R-Md.)] says `I'm not forredistributing wealth, I'm for creating wealth...
...Mikulski is the ranking minority member of theVeterans' Affairs, Housing and Urban Developmentand Indepednent Agencies Subcommittee of theSenate Appropriations Committee...