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...medical community has sought structural solutions. In a recent report, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, which governs residencies and internships, found that "the nation has "oe few generalists and too many specialists." As a result, the council slapped a one-year moratorium on recognizing new sub-specialties. A number of organizations support a quota for medical school graduating classes: 50 percent of graduates must be primary care practitioners...
...Brundtland, who headed the World Commission on Environment and Development. Brundtland's mission, however, could not be more environmentally incorrect. She wants her buddy from the Earth Summit in Rio to promise that the U.S. won't take punitive economic measures against Norway, which plans to defy an international moratorium on whaling...
...patent for the original Harvard mouse,a rodent prone to breast cancer, promptedcongressional calls for a moratorium on animalpatents until the implications of patenting newlife forms had been considered more fully...
...expects to see the end of these nuclear time bombs anytime soon. There are plans afoot to extend the life of some old reactors and to lift a post-Chernobyl moratorium on completing others. Dangerous reactors will be running into the 21st century. The crumbling sarcophagus over Chernobyl's devastated No. 4 may still be there too -- if it has not collapsed by then...
...opponents of the moratorium say school choice ends that problem by giving poorer families a chance to send their children to better schools...