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...Bethesda-based campus of the NIH houses the world's foremost medical-research center. It consists of 26 institutes and centers, including the Genome Institute--Celera's fiercest competitor--led by Francis Collins. The NIH's research is deep in scientific expertise and wide in scope, from uncovering the genetic roots of the rarest cancers to understanding the molecular basis of the common cold. Venter got his start here, bringing both glory and controversy to the Institutes during eight stormy years...
...report--released by the Ad Hoc Committee on Employment Policies after 13 months of research--recommended that the University enlarge the scope of worker benefits, including health insurance...
...foreign policy team is to formulate policy on the basis of a more clearly defined U.S. national interest, and that may make the new administration more inclined to view the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a problem to be managed, rather than one that is within Washington's power or scope of responsibility to resolve...
This feature-length cartoon writhed for four years in development hell (or, as they say at Disney, Development Heck) before its title was changed from "Kingdom of the Sun," its scope narrowed from spectacle to intimacy, its tone altered from the dramatic to the brashly comic and all but one of its songs scrapped. There were other ominous signs: Disney didn't blanket the TV air with commercials; and Spade, in a recent visit with Jay Leno, was loath to mention his new movie. All of which meant, in the end, nothing; the film is a funny, breezy romp. Emperor...
...designs on greater power of some of the larger ones, while others were concerned about expanding the Union while its decision-making remains so unwieldy. Britain was happy to retain the veto principle of policy areas it holds dear, while Germany managed to advance its agenda for reducing the scope of veto, and also managed to win agreement on the need for further talks to define the limits of E.U. authority over member states - a concern that Berlin shares, in different ways, with Britain and France. The most telling response, perhaps, came from the European Union commissioner, Italy's Romano...