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...pipeline when we need them. Can any other system, including government-run labs, produce such a cornucopia of lifesaving and life-enhancing cures at any price? Studies have shown that it costs $800 million to create a new drug and get it through FDA approval. Your story promoted Soviet-style price controls. Remove incentives, and you will get Soviet-style results and products. As a practicing physician and surgeon, I'll take a capitalist drug company for my patients every time. CHRISTOPHER LYON, M.D. Newport Beach, Calif...
...many triumphs of late, and the death last week of RYSZARD KUKLINSKI, 73, demonstrates just how far the fortunes of America's spymasters have fallen. Kuklinski, an officer on the general staff of Poland's army during the cold war, had unique access to some of the Soviet Union's choicest military secrets-and he passed them on to the enemy as a spy for the CIA. From 1972 to 1981, Kuklinski, whose code name was Gull, copied more than 35,000 pages of classified documents, often using a CIA camera disguised as a cigarette lighter. Perhaps his greatest service...
After Harvard, Hartje went on to play hockey for Kiev Sokol in Russia, later writing a book about his experience in the former Soviet Union entitled From Behind the Red Line: An American Hockey Player in Russia...
After the collapse of communism, Poland, like most other former Soviet bloc countries, took to "imported" fast food - burgers, pizza, kebabs - with a hunger stoked by decades of deprivation. Now celebrity chefs Robert Maklowicz and Maciej Kuron - and food critics like Piotr Bikont - are spearheading a return to traditional Polish cookery...
Reality check: unless you have about $15 million for a ride on an old Soviet Soyuz rocket, private space travel still exists only on design boards and in desert workshops. If it does take off, it will be risky. One in 20 missions to space fails, usually catastrophically. Also, the government could set rules onerous enough to ground the fledgling industry. The FAA is now charged with issuing launch licenses and could impose tough restrictions on private trips, in part to minimize its own potential liability. "Even if people accept the risks, our government will be regulating private space travel...