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Corlette adds that "it may be that a Democratic administration will be a little more of a risk-taker" and that a Democratic president with a Democratic Congress "Might be in a better position" to push for continued strong funding in education and research...
Open up in there. The census taker wants to know what time you leave for work. Giant marketing firms want to know how often you use your credit cards. Your boss would like your psychological profile, your bill-paying history and a urine sample. Is that enough to make you feel like hiding in a corner, muttering to yourself about invasions of privacy? Forget it -- the neighbors might be videotaping...
Because these undergraduate tutors have recently and successfully gone through the testing process themselves, MacLean said. "They may be able to relate better to the high school test-taker's concerns...
...scientists. But a new poll, published in the American Journal of Public Health, shows that 93% of the tobacco-funded scientists surveyed "strongly believe" that most lung-cancer deaths are caused by smoking. The industry's response is that it sponsors studies without regard to results. But the survey taker, K. Michael Cummings of the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, demurs: "Scientists receiving support from the council should ask themselves whether the value of their research outweighs its contribution to an industry that kills 400,000 Americans a year...
Among the scariest of Saddam's options would be to exploit the tens of thousands of foreign nationals who are stranded in Iraq and Kuwait. Both countries are a hostage taker's dream bazaar. Among the expatriates in Kuwait are 3,000 Americans, 3,000 Britons and 3,000 Turks. In Iraq there are an additional 500 Americans, 2,000 Britons, 8,000 Soviets and 3,000 Turks. Last week Iraq sealed its borders and Kuwait's. Later, 11 Americans, all of them Baghdad embassy staff and their dependents, except for 10-year-old Penelope Nabokov, were allowed to depart...