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...President faced a hard and uncertain fight to get the funding renewed when the new Congress meets in January. Now Capitol Hill resounds with predictions that angry legislators will cut off aid again as a kind of punishment to North and those in the Administration who failed to monitor his activities. Says Minnesota Senator David Durenberger, a Republican and reluctant contra supporter: "It's going to be a cold day in Washington before any more money goes to Nicaragua. Ollie may have killed off his Nicaraguan program." Such a reaction has little logic. There are valid arguments for and against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Was Betrayed? | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

Then how is silent ischemia diagnosed? Doctors can detect attacks by monitoring electrical signals from their patients' hearts during exercise stress tests; a sudden decrease in blood flow to the muscle changes the signal. The condition can then be confirmed by a Holter monitor, a portable electrocardiograph worn by the patient for at least 24 hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fighting the Silent Attacker | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

That was after a council study estimated that 200 new terminals were needed. Council members said they will monitor use of the 30 Macs to determine whether the need has been...

Author: By Emily S. Bingham, | Title: 30 New Computers Will Be Installed In Science Center and Currier House | 11/19/1986 | See Source »

...study, which is being conducted by an outside consulting firm, is funded by the city Community Development Office and by state grants. Duehay said the city council will monitor the study as it progresses...

Author: By Gawain Kripke, | Title: Council Still Considering Plans for Linkage in City | 11/18/1986 | See Source »

...bone cell to transmit information as a nerve does. The reason these things do not happen is that the instructions -- the genes -- are switched on only under very specific conditions. If researchers can fuse the firefly gene to specific plant or animal genes, they will be able to monitor the "expression," or turning on, of those genes simply by looking at what parts of the organism light up, and when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Of Fireflies and Tobacco Plants | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

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