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...Greek Cypriots vote down a U.N.-led reunification plan...
...plan to e-mail more potential contributors? People have said, "Oh, why don't you buy a list from a website, and you can get a million people's e-mails for $40." But I don't want to do that, because it's impersonal and it's spamming...
Even with a new President inclined to increase spending, throwing money at the problem isn't the answer. "There is no strategic plan," says former Senator Bill Frist, a heart and lung surgeon before he entered politics. Frist voted to double NIH funds in 1998 but wouldn't recommend it again without a better road map. There are numerous federal agencies that cover cancer, for instance, and less than complete coordination among them...
Frist says the scientific and advocacy communities need to agree to a five-year "business plan" with specific targets and measurable goals. "If you put together a good long-term strategic plan, and it was supported by the scientific community," he says, "it would be funded." That is a goal of the Kennedy-Hutchison cancer bill, which could get to the Senate floor this fall. It proposes no less than a complete overhaul in cancer policy. "We need to integrate our current fragmented and piecemeal system of addressing cancer. Front and center in our current system are the troubling divisions...
...increase. Before Gustav, Jindal had convened a science panel to review Morganza-to-the-Gulf, and momentum has been building for an alternative alignment that would protect Houma without cutting off wetlands. "We're still vulnerable, no question about it," says John Lopez, who designed the alternative plan for the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation. "We just have to stop making ourselves more vulnerable...