Word: specialist
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...simply padlocking the place and throwing away the key. In June a midnight blast equal to 4,700 lbs. of TNT rocked the sleepy Washington suburb of White Oak, Maryland, whose residents had long since forgotten the naval chemical-ordnance bunker in their midst. Says Ralph De Gennaro, senior specialist with Friends of the Earth: "Every day we learn more about the Pentagon's environmental pollution. The public still has only a piece of the puzzle...
Falco, a drug-abuse specialist who was Jimmy Carter's Assistant Secretary of State for international narcotics matters, has written a new book, The Making of a Drug-Free America: Programs That Work (Times Books; $22). A consumer guide to the most promising and cost-effective efforts in antidrug education, treatment and grass-roots action against dealers, Falco's book argues for giving drug education and treatment priority over law enforcement because, she insists, those approaches work better than most people realize. "We know that drug abuse is driven largely by demand, not supply," Falco writes. "And we have learned...
Columbia University professor Suzanne Blier has accepted a tenure offer to become the Fine Arts Department's first-ever full-time African art specialist, officials said this week...
Other radicalized patients arrived at their activism by similar routes. Most of them suffer from diseases that are rare or difficult to diagnose, which means that they were shuttled from specialist to specialist, leaving a trail of money and test results but no answers or cures. By banding together and sharing information, patients become informed consumers. Many groups have a Rolodex of scientists and physicians who can be called upon to educate a local doctor confronting his first case of a rare disease. Information campaigns help improve diagnosis, which in turn gives public health officials a more accurate sense...
Even if Brown does pull ahead in the Ivies, it will certainly face some competition from Princeton, which is rapidly emerging as a force in Ancient Eight soccer. Behind assist-specialist Joe Thieman, a junior midfielder from Vienna, Va., the Tigers are 3-0. They've outscored opponents...