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Perhaps McNeil's most noteworthy achievement as an administrator was leading the Medical School's special committee on conflict of interest policy between 1989 and 1990. During that period, the committee reviewed the existing conflict of interest policies, which had come under fire for lacking strict regulation of possible financial conflicts...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Med School's McNeil Is Provost Contender | 2/27/1992 | See Source »

These days, zoos hard pressed for space have adopted strict breeding practices to prevent unwanted offspring ending up in dismal wayside attractions or being used as quarry at private big-game ranches...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: The News of the Weird | 2/22/1992 | See Source »

Mexico and Thailand have announced that they would like to phase out CFCs on the same timetable as the developed nations. One factor spurring them on may be the likelihood that exports not meeting strict ozone-friendly standards could soon face international sanctions. But there is also grass-roots pressure in some developing countries. In Mexico, for example, consumer complaints persuaded local manufacturers that it was time to begin removing CFCs from aerosol products. The changeover happened so quickly that when one company ran out of labels saying THIS IS A CFC-FREE PRODUCT, store managers rejected the shipment, knowing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Do You Patch a Hole in the Sky That Could Be as Big as Alaska? | 2/17/1992 | See Source »

...minute "war comedy" takes place in 1958 during the French-Algerian war. Each character serves more as a symbol than as a human being; this tactic transforms the play from strict drama into a parable...

Author: By Dvora Inwood, | Title: Sign of the Times | 2/13/1992 | See Source »

...Ocean City -- the butt, at parochial school, of ethnic slurs by Irish-American classmates whose brothers served with the American forces liberating Italy during World War II. He even felt somewhat of a foreigner in his own family. His father Joseph, a workaholic tailor and dry cleaner, was strict, austerely religious, often remote; his cool, fastidious mother Catherine froze at human touch, even when clutching hands were her own children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Double Agents in Exile | 2/10/1992 | See Source »

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