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Bernice, 43, has been forced to plan for a career, a way to earn her own money once the state turns off the government spigot...
...media advocates like Drudge argue that the old system was undemocratic because it allowed the Eastern (and Western) Establishments to control the spigot of public information. In part, this is true. And there is something exciting about the idea of a world where every man can be his own editor, publisher and printer, without the old barriers...
...change too minor not to notify everyone remotely involved. "It had turned into the biggest cover-your-ass thing you could imagine," says Wang. "People would send these things just so they could say, 'But I copied you on that.'" Now companies such as SmithKline Beecham are tightening the spigot by encouraging employees to limit the number of CCs they send. At Ernst & Young, systemwide messages (to everyone) are verboten...
...life-span? At Geron Corp., a San Francisco-based biomedical firm, biologist Calvin Harley is trying to find out. Harley, who collaborated with Greider on her later telomere work, is looking for the genes that direct telomerase production, believing he might be able to manipulate them so that the spigot for the enzyme can be turned on and off at will. "I think we are going to see fundamental medicines for aging," Harley says. "With a pill, with cell therapy, I think we may be able to treat aging in very specific areas...
This kind of subterfuge offends Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona, who, despite his long-standing friendship with Dole, has sponsored a bill that would turn off the soft-money spigot. Unlike any of the growing number of campaign-finance reform measures being floated on Capitol Hill, his bill, which is co-sponsored by Democratic Senator Russell Feingold of Wisconsin, would stop the flow of these funds by preventing national parties from distributing the money to state parties. After months of trying, the two sponsors have finally succeeded in getting the Senate to schedule a debate on the bill next...