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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...four-year-old board is the only civilian police oversight committee in New England. It was created following several charges of police racism and was expected to hear similar claims in the future...
...animal studies has yet demonstrated the value of raising HDL, and no clinical trial to date has specifically targeted humans with low HDL. "Much the same question existed for LDL until this decade, when it was unequivocally shown that lowering LDL decreases the risk," says Levy. The situation is similar with HDL today, he says, "except that with HDL we have not been smart enough yet to set up clinical trials designed to test whether raising HDL alone will be beneficial...
...native of Kent, in the southeast of England, Brand has shown a similar fascination with new topics throughout his career. As a teenager he wandered through much of Europe, ultimately setting out for the New World, where he worked as a reporter in Montreal. Later he earned a B.A. from New York University. For 16 years, Brand worked at the Wall Street Journal, where as a science reporter he won an American Association for the Advancement of Science-Westinghouse Science Journalism Award for stories on protein research and artificial intelligence. After a few years of helping edit the paper...
...Quayle's defense after the Republican Convention, and joined New Hampshire Governor John Sununu's Dukakis-bashing brigade. Tutored by several former aides who now hold top Pentagon, White House and budget-making jobs, Tower wowed Bush during their Nov. 17 meeting and several days later made a similar impression on Sununu, soon to be White House chief of staff, and Secretary of State-designate James Baker...
...current strategic-arms talks, the U.S. is already attempting to reduce a destabilizing threat it introduced without sufficient reflection a decade ago. The U.S.deployed MIRVs (multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles), which enabled a single U.S. Trident I missile to carry as many as eight nuclear warheads. The rationale -- similar to that of Stealth -- was to penetrate Soviet antiballistic-missile defenses, which were themselves considered destabilizing because they threatened the American ability to retaliate effectively. But the Soviets responded with huge ten-headed SS-18 missiles that can destroy the U.S. land-based deterrence. These so-called silo busters offer...