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...project catapulted him to scientific prominence, even earning him a spot on Time Magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people of our time in 2004. The same year, he launched the Broad Institute to find applications for the new wealth of genetic data he helped obtain...
...President Fritz Henderson acknowledged the "Term Sheet" on the rescue package does require the automaker to obtain concessions from the union. But privately, union officials are saying that they didn't sign the term sheet, so they don't feel bound...
...proposal. It now calls for doubling the number of exceptions to Sunday closing rules per year from the current five to 10, not counting the period prior to Christmas. Even then, however, city councils must approve local extension of Sunday openings, a green light that may prove hard to obtain after the nation-wide romp the Socialists enjoyed in municipal elections last spring. "Don't bother voting this text, because it won't be applied," warned Socialist Party leader and mayor of Lille Martine Aubry. "We'll be as ferocious in battling this project as we were the initial...
...funded in large part by the $22 million per year spent on health insurance in Switzerland , is offered in twenty-three centers across the nation, where nearly 1,300 addicts receive carefully measured doses of heroin daily. Of course, not just any addict can go to a center and obtain heroin. Only hard-core junkies—that is, addicts who have been using for years and have previously tried and failed to quit—are allowed to participate in the program. All qualms about making this narcotic available to the masses are invalid as the addicts who receive...
...users through increased health, justice, and law-enforcement expenditures. The crime activity so typical of junkies has declined greatly since the inception of the heroin program. Addicts, by virtue of their addiction, are bound to engage in any sort of behavior, be it healthy or destructive, to obtain their drug of choice. When this drug of choice—heroin in this case—is given to them in controlled doses by the government, the drug-related crime rate drops. Keeping addicts in the program and off the streets has proven to be a fiscally and socially responsible solution...