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...National Cancer Institute's screening program have injected more than 400,000 chemicals into leukemic mice, hoping to find chemotherapies that would help solve the riddles of cancer. All that frustrating work has produced only 36 licensed drugs. Most of them, while dramatically effective against leukemia, have shown only modest value in other forms of cancer. "Maybe," says David Korn, chairman of the National Cancer Institute's advisory board, "we've been using the wrong system as the screening device...
...market at below-market prices, and declared, "Europe is not willing to destroy its own industry" by giving Japan free access. Toyota calls that charge "groundless and meaningless," but spokesman Yoshiharu Tateishi says, "We are fully aware of the trade friction, and our approach will be modest and prudent...
...main reason for the modest upsurge in men in white is the pressure on two-income families with little time for shopping. The traditional reusable glass milk bottles delivered to the doorstep also please environmentally conscious customers. The new breed of milkmen have a lot of doorsteps left to visit: despite their return, says the United Dairy Industry Association, less than 1% of all milk sold in the U.S. is currently home-delivered...
Even if a shooting war with Iraq occurs, the modest cuts Cheney was about to order are still reasonable. If he draws back under service pressure, it would take courage for Congress to ignore charges of lack of patriotism and push the reductions through. It may come to that. The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Les Aspin, offers a Washington truism: "It's still easier for politicians to cut defense than to raise taxes or cut domestic spending." Of course, if a hot war with Iraq breaks out, all such bets are off. That could cost...
Given that distasteful scenario, Washington's modest intervention into the affair last week was probably prudent. Baghdad ought to know it cannot terrorize its small neighbors with impunity. "All the Arabs in the gulf want us to help them against Iraq," says Rubin, "even if they can't say so." On the other hand, it is impossible to manage a belligerent like Saddam. America's best insurance against the tyranny of another oil shock remains what it has always been: to reduce dependency by conserving energy, even if prices do not go sky high...