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...Over the past 60 years, scientists have figured out what works best in what models. The vast majority of animal testing [today] is in rodents, either rats or mice. Rodents, particularly mice, have very short life spans, so you can see how a compound would react in a young animal, then in the same geriatric animal, and then in the next-generation animal, all in a time frame that is reasonable. Then if a product or a compound is determined to be safe in a rodent, another species is used. For example, if it's a neurological compound, oftentimes...
Still, the amateurs seem to have helped boost the event. Although this race used to draw big names like former Olympian Danny Clark and Tour de France workhorse George Hincapie, as well as amateurs, organizers say attendance at this four-corner criterium (a short race course) has suffered in more recent years. To liven things up a bit, Eustice decided to bring two very different cycling cultures together on the same 3/4-mile course along the brownstone-lined streets of Harlem - the pros and the bike messengers. "I almost look at them as the artists colonizing the big race," says Eustice...
...presidency relied so narrowly on its conservative base that he lost the ability to do any deals with Democrats when his base refused to support him. The "base-first" strategy got him narrowly reelected in 2004, but shut down his legislative agenda when his second term began. The short-sighted strategy is what killed his Social Security plan in 2005 and, Brownstein points out, doomed his second effort to reform immigration...
During a break, we walked a short distance across the grassy park and down a trail through the trees to a clearing where we could spot the fruits of our labor - the start of what I was told will be a mile-long trail of sandbags piled two-feet high atop a leaky levee. In the distance, National Guard troops piled the bags. Below us, only a few feet away, was our new enemy - the river...
...lack of effort. I think it's just that they're dealing with a man who is defying international opinion, a man who believes he doesn't have to play according to universally accepted standards of behavior. So you're really dealing with a dictatorship. So the international community, short of intervention, has done all the diplomatic pressure they can apply on the country. The Zimbabwe issue has attracted the international radar for a long time ... but, you know, [this is] Africa, where armed conflicts are prevalent. In Zimbabwe there is no armed conflict, but it is state-sponsored violence...