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Cancer is a human problem, not a puzzle provided for the pleasure of those temperamentally inclined to endless research. The entire question of how best to spend our resources needs to be debated because we are proceeding on blind faith that is unsupported by positive results after decades of research. Scientists continue to work with mice, knowing that what is learned seldom applies to humans. The cancer-research juggernaut has been rolling for way too long now, costing too many dollars and too many lives. LAWRENCE BLAKELY BARNES Bangkok...
...Institute bears this out: 65% believe the FDA is too slow in approving drugs, and more than 70% state that FDA delays have hurt their ability to give the best possible care to patients on at least one occasion. Worse yet, more than 10% say they frequently encounter this problem. In short, for many of these doctors, fighting cancer very often means fighting the FDA as well. SAM KAZMAN, General Counsel Competitive Enterprise Institute Washington
...Internet success story in "Boogie Sites" [TECHWATCH, May 18] without reporting the consequent carnage. Quittner said of Scott Hirsch, proprietor of DoMeLive.com "It was easy to find customers--Hirsch just trolled Usenet for e-mail addresses." Quittner didn't mention what Hirsch leaves behind while building his business--the problem of unsolicited commercial e-mail, most commonly known as spam. Right now I have more than 1,000 spam messages in my e-mail In-box folder. Those of us who detest spam support the right of porn websites to exist. We do not support the indiscriminate flooding...
...smell like an old pair of running shoes? The problem may lie in your air conditioner. A new report finds that about 3% of autos--high- and low-end models--have fungi and bacteria breeding in the moisture that collects on the a.c. It won't make you seriously ill, but allergy sufferers may find their symptoms become worse...
This is not a new problem, and it is mostly Moscow's fault. Yeltsin and his several governments have never learned how to collect the billions in taxes that corporations and individuals dodge. Other billions are not collected because of sweetheart deals Yeltsin made with Russian oligarchs when he needed their political support...