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...best-run programs have built-in safeguards. In many cities, doctors have reduced dosages to the smallest effective amounts. Since instituting a computer system that prevents registration at more than one clinic, Georgia has had no overdose deaths or other indications of drug diversion. Regulations issued earlier this year by the Food and Drug Administration should help. The new rules make it easier to crack down on private dispensers and require clinic dispensers to be registered after screening. The rules also require at least one urinalysis a week for every patient to make sure that he has not gone back...
...million-year-old fish so well preserved that its scales are still clearly visible. Now, in the course of routine stonecutting, a quarry owner named Louis Ghirardi has turned up an even more important prize: a superbly preserved fossil of a birdlike dinosaur, one of the smallest ever unearthed...
...premium Cabernet Sauvignon grapes have jumped from $305 a ton to about $ 1,000. They will rise still higher as a result of a tight supply. Because of a spring frost and August heat-wave damage, the 1972 California grape harvest, which was completed last month, was the smallest in 30 years. Those grapes are now fermenting, and when 1972 wines reach the market next year, some may carry price tags that are as much as 20% higher. In the Napa Valley, a prime growing region north of San Francisco, almost no land is left for new vineyards; enterprising home...
...fate of his legislation; he sorely needs to improve on his 1972 record of winning only 65% of the votes on which he took a clear stand (the lowest percentage since President Eisenhower's record in 1960) and on his taking such a position on only 81 votes, the smallest number since such an accounting began in the 1950s...
...biggest Senate upsets took place in one of the smallest states. Delaware's J. Caleb Boggs, 63, after three terms as Congressman, two more as Governor, and two as U.S. Senator, was forcibly retired by Democratic Upstart Joseph R. Biden Jr., 29. Biden's most important political post until now has been two years as a member of the New Castle county council...