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...which is one of the furthest along in testing, is unlikely to receive approval before 1992. Scientists also readily concede that medical therapy fails to address the underlying psychological and social causes of drug abuse. Even if an addict is weaned from one drug, they say, he will very often take up another. A federal study released in August found that as many as 47% of patients at 15 methadone clinics across the country continued to use heroin or other opiates, and up to 40% used nonopiate drugs, usually cocaine. So scientists find themselves aiming their magic bullet...
...decided to seek the pardon of Pope Gregory VII in 1077, he stood barefoot for three days in the snow outside the papal quarters in Canossa, Italy. Gorbachev's concordat with the church was no less significant in its way. But there was a crucial difference: as is so often the case with Gorbachev, he achieved his reconciliation without humiliation. As he had done before, the Soviet leader let the ongoing crisis of the Communist system serve as an opportunity to push his nation toward a broader vision of the future. "We need spiritual values," Gorbachev declared the day before...
...science foundation said in a statement that it had given Meselson the award as part of an effort "to honor scientists and engineers whose exemplary actions, often taken at significant personal cost, have served to foster scientific freedom and responsibility." It will be presented at a meeting in February...
...Satisfaction, a series of selections from three different plays, what the characters say and do often makes no sense. During the two-and-a-half hours of performance we meet a man who is willing to pay for the privilege of staying in a hospital, witness a failed double suicide attempt with plastic bags, and listen to the ramblings of a man obsessed with diseased dogs and ready to fight for the right to sit on a park bench...
What holds this lengthy and often incoherent collection of dramas together is a series of winning performances from actors who believe so strongly in what they are saying that we can't help nodding our heads in agreement, even when individual lines and actions are incomprehensible...