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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...After two strong November performances, the Harvard wrestling team traveled to Las Vegas this past weekend for the Cliff Keen Invitational, looking to continue its success at what is possibly its toughest tournament of the season...
...nurses. Maher apparently was one of the least favored members of Safra's medical staff (the 67-year-old banker suffered from Parkinson's disease) and wanted to win his boss's favor by painting himself as a hero. So he started a small fire in a wastebasket, claimed two knife-wielding hooded men entered the apartment - and slashed himself. The plan was to say he scared off the assailants and saved...
...While the real teeth of this effort - the regulatory agency and the funding apparatus - are contained in a bill proposed by Massachusetts senator Edward Kennedy, Clinton's executive order has more clout, since it could take effect in as little as two months with the benefit of no political haggling. The plan requires all insurance companies and medical providers that receive federal funding (roughly one third of all hospital and doctor visits) to develop practices to avoid medical errors. This is such a huge chunk of the medical industry that experts say it could lead to industry-wide reform...
...timing of these high-profile failures. Tuesday, the agency announced it would reevaluate the Mars program, a move that could delay or even abort NASA's ambitious plans to send a lander and an orbiter to Mars every 26 months for the next decade. The loss of two straight probes prompts questions about whether the agency isn't cutting too many corners, sending out untested spacecraft without enough built-in redundancies, and it's hoped that an investigation into the apparent failure of the Mars Polar Lander will provide some much-needed answers. In the meantime, NASA stands behind...
...there may be a political rationale to pressing the offensive and destroying the Chechen capital." Indeed, if that can be achieved via air strikes and artillery - with minimal Russian casualties - it will form the centerpiece of Prime Minister Putin's campaign in parliamentary elections, which are less than two weeks away...