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Reagan, meanwhile, had another set of arms negotiations to resolve--with the U.S. Congress. Democrats in the House had tacked onto a critical spending bill a package of tough arms amendments that the Administration strongly opposed. Among them: a one-year ban on nuclear testing, a proviso that would forbid Reagan to violate the limits set by the unratified SALT II treaty and deep cuts in Star Wars funding. But under public pressure from the President, Congress backed down on Friday, moderating the SDI cuts and settling for a nonbinding resolution urging Reagan to comply with SALT II. The House...
...HEART DRUG JUST FOR BLACKS The FDA may decide this week to approve BiDil, a heart-failure drug aimed at African Americans. A one-year study of 1,050 black heart patients found that those taking the pill, which pairs two generic cardiac drugs, had a 43% lower death rate than patients who didn't take the drug. If approved, BiDil would be the first race-specific drug...
...think the fact that it’s a one-year course makes it really hard for people who are unsure, who don’t know what they want to concentrate in,” she says...
...internal documents and members of the committee, Pinker proposed a sequence of courses that would teach non-science concentrators about life sciences, physical sciences, and ideas of logic and probability. Committee member Louis Menand, the Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language, suggested a one-year course based on the great works of Western literature...
...think the fact that it’s a one-year course makes it really hard for people who are unsure, who don’t know what they want to concentrate in,” she says...