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...Knafel Center still has to clear several city committees before Harvard gets the go-ahead to build. In the meantime, MacFarquhar says students should be patient: The department's needs are the same as their...
While the FTC has been made aware of this discrepancy before, they've done little to address it, beyond assuring Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala in 1998 that they were "investigating" their current labeling methods. Health officials and doctors aren't feeling particularly patient, and are pressing for a major overhaul in the agency's procedures. "When full review of the FTC's process comes out, we suspect it will show current methods are not helpful at all," says Judith Wilkenfeld, Chair of the Committee for Tobacco Product Change in Washington, D.C. "We're long overdue...
Health care has long been an area of interest for Kennedy. He is currently a leading co-sponsor of national "patient's bill of rights legislation," and for years has championed federal efforts to provide health coverage for poor Americans...
...difficulty. Why? Obviously it's the onerous burden of Y2K. As we all sit on the precipice of the new millennium, our legs dangling in the glorious future, the pledges that seemed sufficient in previous years--"I need to get on the StairMaster more" or "I'll be more patient with my kids"--just don't seem to pack enough vision and gravitas. But we must all fight this false sense of obligation to make grand, magnificently philosophical resolutions. As citizens, let's not allow our customarily banal and petty hopes for the ensuing year to be swept away...
...apparently lost it. The day after Christmas, they left their home in the Philadelphia suburb of Exton, Pa., and took Steven in his wheelchair, with his toys, diapers and medical supplies, to the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in nearby Wilmington, Del. They demanded that Steven, a frequent patient there for years, be admitted, and then, while the receptionist went to get a nurse, the two drove off, leaving their son behind with a note saying they could no longer care...