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...improve the global situation. Even if the current political climate in the U.S. makes it unlikely that we will sign on to the comprehensive, multinational Kyoto Accords, politicians in Washington must find other ways to stem this growing threat. The alternative is that we wring every bit of short-term profit out of American industry while likely sacrificing its long-term health and the health of this planet. If we do not act, fifty years from now we will look back on our train wreck of an environment and wonder why we didn’t step on the brakes...
...doing big things, most of the time you're never going to be around to see them [to fruition], whether it be cultural change or spreading democracy in parts of the world where people just don't believe it can happen. I understand that. I don't expect many short-term historians to write nice things about...
With the assistance of the HIO, the three microbiologists applied for short-term visas a total number of four times, according to Rockefeller Center program associate Lorena G. Barberia...
Menendez’s short-term plans involve working on John Corzine’s gubernatorial campaign and on a Senate campaign in the spring—jobs she hopes will help her figure out whether or not politics is her true calling...
...pursued at Memory Pharmaceuticals. Drawing on Nobel-prizewinning research by co-founder Eric Kandel, the company hopes to develop drugs that reverse dementia, memory loss, depression and schizophrenia. Chief executive Tony Scullion says it has already developed a drug that fights Alzheimer's by restoring the process by which short-term memories are logged in for long-term recall. Swiss drug firm Roche is now testing it on humans, with clinical results expected in the near future...