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Upon graduation from the College, Vagts went on to obtain a law degree from Harvard Law School in 1951--one of the last classes to have a single sex graduating class...
...only Clinton but the entire planet is facing a hard truth. There is little that can stop nations willing to swallow international condemnation in order to obtain the weapons of mass death they deem vital to their national security or just their national prestige. Unfortunately history remembers the bombs that go off, not the ones that...
...into whether the President's insatiable need for cash prompted the White House to promote the export of classified missile technology to China. Both the White House and Loral, the U.S. aerospace contractor that worked with China, say they didn't give the Chinese any information they couldn't obtain by reading the latest edition of Janes...
Unfortunately, there are plenty of reasons. To start with, the substances are available only in tiny quantities at this point. When scientists first started making endostatin, it took 200 qt. of mouse urine to obtain less than a millionth of an ounce. Turning the compounds out in people-size doses will require entirely different manufacturing techniques. EntreMed claims it now has a way to make lots of endostatin, using yeast cells as tiny factories; angiostatin is proving a lot tougher to mass-produce...
Richard Sobel, a fellow of the Berkman Center for Internet said Society who organized and moderated the discussion, pointed to legislation proposed by the Clinton administration that would make it easier for police officers to obtain patients' medical records, sometimes without their consent, as an example of the kind of infringement on personal privacy that could accompany the advent of information technology in medicine...