Word: roberte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rogaine does not work equally for everyone, however. Best candidates: men under 40 who have been balding on the crown for ten years or less and who have a moderate amount of hair left. For some reason, the drug does not seem to work on receding hairlines. Says Dr. Robert Stern of Harvard Medical School, who chaired the FDA panel: "The most important thing is to have fuzzy hair left -- fine, light hairs...
Still, the position retains enough prestige so that many scholars are willing to make the sacrifice -- for a limited period. Georgetown's outgoing dean, Robert Pitofsky, has found his five years in office "very gratifying," but looks forward to resuming full-time teaching of antitrust law next year. "A deanship takes you away from scholarship," he says. "These jobs are best done on a one-term basis...
...brain and slowly release an antitumor drug for cancer victims. The day is not far off when most diabetics will be able to give themselves insulin with a nasal spray. In California doctors are working on drug-loaded bubbles of fat that bind themselves to diseased cells. Says Robert Langer, a biomedical engineer at M.I.T.: "It's an explosive field with enormous potential...
...arms to the Afghan rebels. His reward: more than $700 million this year in U.S. aid. Secretary of State George Shultz last week called Zia a "great fighter for freedom." Shultz led the U.S. delegation to Zia's Saturday funeral in Islamabad, which was thronged by 200,000 mourners. Robert Oakley, the Near East expert for the National Security Council, has been designated the new U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan...
Critics of the rent-a-judge system call it Cadillac justice, which lets more affluent litigants evade the problems of the judicial system. "The elite abandoning a public system in decay ensures that it will never be improved," argues Robert Gnaizda of Public Advocates, a San Francisco public interest group. Critics also charge that rent-a-judging lures experienced jurists into early retirement to collect the combination of public pensions and private fees. Another complaint against private judging is that it lets corporations and other litigants shield their doings from public scrutiny. In normal civil- court proceedings, hearings are generally...