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...want for that input to occur both before, during and after we actually generate some specific design proposals,” Karoff said...
...according to the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development, the money goes fast. The standard drug-approval process poses a problem, and Washington hopes to reduce the time and expense by simplifying the approval process for pharmaceuticals useful against bioterrorism. Because things like radiation poisoning or plague occur rarely, it's difficult to find human subjects to test new cures. The FDA has eased the rules for bioterrorism-related drugs, allowing tests for effectiveness to be conducted entirely on animals, though a human test to establish safety is still required...
...strike—the second in under a year to occur at Yale, a university with a long history of labor strife—has brought luminaries such as the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson to New Haven, but no resolution to the dispute between the administration and the workers...
...because it is early in the season. If they had already matured, the 3,500 plants he was tending would have yielded some $8 million worth of pot--an investment worth protecting. In the fall, when scores of Mexican workers arrive to harvest and process the pot, shoot-outs occur between law-enforcement agents and camouflage-clad growers toting AK-47s. Sometimes the pot pirates mistake innocent tourists for thieves or cops. Last year kayakers on the Salmon River in the Klamath National Forest were held at gunpoint by traffickers, as were a hiker in the Sequoia National Park...
...government during the SARS epidemic displayed a degree of responsiveness not seen under previous leaderships. This generated a flood of praise from around China, and the whispers of "tame puppet" that were floating around faded away. But the true litmus tests have yet to come. One such test will occur the next time leadership is tempted to use force to suppress dissent. Among post-Mao rulers, Deng Xiaoping stumbled in both 1979 (crushing the Democracy Wall movement) and 1989 (the Tiananmen Square massacre), while Jiang Zemin failed in 1999 against the meditation group Falun Gong. Another litmus test...