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...Kerry a Vietnam, war hero turned antiwar protester who has never cast a legislative vote, is sent to the Senate tomorrow, many will attribute his victory to the unusual insider--outsider mix that has marked his rapid rise in state politics...
...while the research is advancing at an unprecedentedly rapid pace, cancer biologists remain divided over its potential to actually provide a cure to cancer. Moreover, competition among researchers has led scientists to withhold information, plaguing the research and slowing down the progress, scientists...
...strains of rapid expansion, followed by recent years of constricting resources and leveling enrollments, have taken their toll," the report stated...
Although they are now considered essential measures of economic performance, such vital yardsticks as the gross national product and the consumer price index have come into widespread use only in recent decades. During the 1940s economists made rapid strides in their ability to sift through the billions of transactions that make up economic behavior and distill them into key statistics that indicate the state of the economy. Few experts have been more crucial in turning the numerical potpourri into some kind of order than Sir Richard Stone, 71, who last week won the 1984 Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic...
...also points to the rapid rise of women Ph.D.'s in the last two decades as an explanation. "You can't get representation overnight because you have to have vacancies in the various fields," she says...