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...Dana Farber study has a high survival rate in part because of the methods the researchers used to select the patients treated with the new treatment. "Selecting the patients leads to a very low mortality rate and very high success rate," Nadler said...
...Robert Owen, at the time a private citizen volunteering his services to North, made a trip to Costa Rica in 1985 to select a site for an airfield from which arms could be flown to the contras. He testified that he was met and shown around by a CIA agent who helped him choose the location. The CIA was barred at the time from such activities...
...Senate Select Committee Chairman Daniel Inouye has one. So does Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh. So, too, does just about every journalist, congressional staffer and attorney investigating the labyrinthine intricacies of the Iran-contra scandal. Known simply as the Chron, the 678-page paperback (Warner Books; $5.95) has become the ultimate viewer's guide to the hearings...
...revised picture of the President was drawn by Robert McFarlane last week during four days of sometimes anguished public testimony before the House and Senate Select Committees investigating Iranscam. McFarlane, who served as Reagan's National Security Adviser from October 1983 to December 1985, is perhaps the most poignant figure in the scandal. Last February, depressed about his role in the political melodrama, he attempted suicide by swallowing an overdose of Valium...
After making several trips to the Law Library in the past few days, I found that Physicist's Weekly doesn't even make the list of publications appealing to ridiculously narrow audiences. Certainly The Accountant's Digest appeals to a much smaller and more select audience. So do The Accountant's Journal, Accounting Review, and Accounting Trends and Techniques...