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...biologics compliance office: "There simply was not a lot of evidence of changes or improvements." Two years into Mrs. Dole's presidency, the FDA, still frustrated, went to court to force the Red Cross to act. The result was a May 1993 consent decree setting out a stringent five-year plan for reform...
...argument's sake that the abuse of a law allowing assisted suicide is a distinct possibility [MEDICINE, April 15]. Would it not be better to tailor the law with stringent conditions and guidelines rather than throw it out altogether? Many of the laws of this country are susceptible to abuse. Consider freedom of speech or the right to bear arms. Should we throw them out? The decision to die should be personal. Only the individual who is suffering can say when bearable pain has become unbearable. If that person wishes to be dead, why are we arguing? Whose life...
Vautin says Harvard's record is strong, especially considering that Massachusetts is generally recognized as having the some of the most stringent environmental regulations in the country...
Some academic institutions facing the stringent standards say many of the regulations designed for the industrial world do not apply well to universities, according to Vautin...
...schoolchildren and their teacher last week by a gunman in Scotland has sparked a national debate on gun control in Britain. Thomas Hamilton killed the children and their teacher and wounded 12 others, including two other teachers, before killing himself last Wednesday. Many politicians are calling for more stringent gun laws. "We must take this as a warning that we are becoming like America and act before it is too late," said governing Conservative Party legislator David Mellor. Currently, people must be prove they have a good reason to won a gun and pose no threat to society in order...