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...even proximate cause of such suffering, it is also true that America is the richest nation on earth and Afghanistan one of the poorest. A large measure of generosity--aid, medicine, a program to remove the land mines that keep Afghan fields untilled and maim Afghan children--can prolong the smiles on the faces of those liberated in the past two weeks. There must be no replay of America's thoughtlessness in 1989, when, after the defeated Soviet forces marched across the Oxus River, Washington dropped Afghanistan like a used tissue...
Unlike most mid-project changes in technological service providers, the change to Peoplesoft will not prolong the completion of the HR Project. On the contrary, while the original end date for the project was well into 2003, project leaders now say the project should be ready by April...
Still unknown is whether Gleevec can prolong life. Any time you rely on a single drug to treat cancer there's always the risk that the malignant cells will eventually become resistant...
...relations for deans to offer the protestors extra food, but the residents of Massachusetts and Matthews Halls deserve the University’s protection of their ability to sleep and study—while Harvard should not attempt to drive the protestors out, it has no legitimate reason to prolong their stay...
...studies' authors--at Oregon Health Sciences University and the drug company Novartis--still have a lot to prove. The current reports are from what researchers call Phase I, or safety, studies, which are designed to test a drug's side effects, not its ability to prolong lives. Several patients developed severe though reversible anemia while on the drug, and there's a strong possibility that cancer cells could eventually develop resistance...