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Critics of the current system have all sorts of ideas about how hospitals and research labs could go beyond the minimum. One is the notion of subject advocates--independent consultants whose sole function would be to look out for the best interests of the subjects, not the scientists. Argues George Annas: "You cannot rely on the conscience of the individual investigator, because he has an inherent conflict of interest. He has to enroll subjects in his study...
...other hand, while Zubaydah had made vague allusions to other potential attacks against the West, his only specific reference was a threat to banks in the Northeastern U.S. And the notion of attacking banks was bolstered, says an official, by "cryptic references to banks" gleaned by U.S. intelligence from separate, highly sensitive sources focused on Al Qaeda networks. Also, on Wednesday, April 17, the Middle East Broadcast Corp. broadcast a new videotape of Osama Bin Laden in which he gloated over the damage done to the U.S. stock market and economy by the September 11 attacks...
...contrast, never found such contentment, which served as part of the basis for his atheism and his sense of “resignation.” Nicholi writes, “The suffering in his own life and the lives of those he loved, for him, ruled out the notion of an all-loving, all-powerful Creator...
Third parties support instant-runoff voting because they believe it will dispel the notion that a vote for their candidates is wasted. "It would make voters feel better about themselves, make the election more meaningful, draw more voters to the polls," says John Anderson, the 1980 third-party candidate for President. Other reformers argue that it is a truer expression of voter will than runoff elections, which are costly and typically attract a much smaller voter turnout. San Francisco approved the change after last year's runoff for city attorney drew an abysmally low 16.6% of registered voters...
Summers opened by pointing out the benefits provided by economic development and questioned the notion that globalization is to blame for world poverty...