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This term President Clinton has been battling to get funding for nationalized school testing. Some teachers have protested that instead of teaching students for the sake of their education, they will now have to teach them to perform well on the exam and thereby compromise on the time spent for their knowledge. Perhaps Clinton should hold off after seeing ETS falter...
...first chapter of Paul's Letter to the Colossians, the Scripture text for his address to the hundreds of thousands he expects in Washington's National Mall this Saturday. Even in his exhaustion, he feels the resonance of the 24th verse: "I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake...
...ensuing debate--one that scientists at Shaman Pharmaceuticals, the cutting-edge company conducting the research, will never forget. At issue was whether or not to throw a live crab into the extract, just as native healers do. "We're thinking, How important could that be, for God's sake?" says Lisa Conte, president and CEO of Shaman. "But wouldn't you know, of the three extracts, the one with the crab in it was the only one that showed activity." Turns out that a component in a crab's shell is needed to coerce the active chemical compound from...
...their people in mind and with their informed consent. The studies were designed to be responsive to local needs and to the constraints of each study site. African scientists have argued that it is not in their best interest to include a complicated and costly AZT regimen for the sake of comparison when such a regimen is not only unaffordable but logistically infeasible. They have, instead, opted for a study design that is achievable in practice and is likely to provide lifesaving answers expeditiously, even though it includes a group of women receiving a placebo. While the inclusion of this...
...time really be divided into neatly defined decades? More likely it is for historical neatness's sake that we stuff trends into boxes, like books shelved by the Dewey decimal system, so that we can comprehend the world and categorize its contents. And yet Dylan's career divides easily into decades: the folk ingenue of the '60s, fresh-faced from Hibbing, Minn., drawing from Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson and Woody Guthrie, busting with old blues, freshly learned folk songs and rock-fueled new ideas he was on the verge of unleashing. Then the folk-rock mystery rebel...