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Naming the best is a lot tougher now than it would have been 100 years ago. Science and medicine are enormous enterprises, requiring billions of dollars to support tens of thousands of researchers in universities, government labs and industry. Dozens or even hundreds of Ph.D.s might labor together to tackle a single problem--finding an elusive particle, say, or deconstructing a genome. On a project like that, it is hard to single out one researcher. Thus you will find very few household names among scientists today...
Last week a special government investigation disclosed that the number of nursing homes cited for abuse violations has doubled in just the past five years, prompting Congressman Henry Waxman, a California Democrat, to propose tougher staffing and disclosure rules. These may indeed be necessary. But the soon-to-be-released findings of the first national study of assisted living suggest that staffing problems and neglect in these facilities may be just as acute as in nursing homes. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) report will show that 32% of assisted-living residents (who are typically much healthier than...
...President Bush came into office promising to make life easier for America's allies and tougher for its enemies. Instead, he's making life rather difficult for U.S. allies, while its enemies don't appear particularly fazed...
Still, before anyone can be sent to the Hague, he has to be caught. And while Bosnian-Serb police are unlikely to turn on their own anytime soon, NATO troops responsible for apprehending war criminals say they are taking a tougher line. A former U.S. official told TIME on condition of anonymity that last year "there were failed efforts" to nab Karadzic. "We had some big disappointments," the official said. On a visit to Sarajevo in July, NATO Secretary-General George Robertson underscored his commitment to arrests. "There is no safe haven, and there is no statute of limitations," Robertson...
...suspects she will not for long surrender to the kind of simple adorability she demonstrates in Blonde. Her essence is tougher, maybe more driven. Her mother used to call her "my little Type A personality," a phrase Witherspoon borrowed to name her production company. She's a notorious spur to her films' writers; she helped turn Blonde into something resembling the female-empowerment comedy Private Benjamin. That intensity carries over to the set. Says Blonde co-producer Marc Platt: "Whether it was Take 2 or Take 7, she'd be focused as if there was no one else...