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...America's vaunted medical research system. They are its primary mechanism for testing potential drugs and separating the ones that work from the ones that are useless or actively harmful. Yet the very nature of human testing involves risk; nobody can tell in advance whether a new medicine carries unforeseen dangers. And so clinicians are forced to walk an ethical and scientific tightrope. Make the rules protecting patients too lax, and subjects will suffer and even die needlessly. Make them too strict, and lifesaving medications won't make it out of the lab quickly enough to help the people...
...Sometimes we encounter unforeseen circumstances, like soil conditions, building conditions in renovations or mitigation costs,” writes Kathy A. Spiegelman, Harvard’s associate vice president for planning and real estate, in an e-mail...
...required to accomplish the "regime change" the Bush Administration seeks, many months will be required to assemble troops, replenish stocks of precision bombs and redirect the intelligence assets now deployed to Afghanistan's shooting war. But European governments are already anxious about Bush's intentions - a fear of unforeseen consequences that has only been sharpened by the death last week of two German and three Danish peacekeepers who were defusing a missile in Afghanistan, and the participation of some 200 special forces from Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany and Norway, and flyers from France, as American ground troops led an assault...
...referendum lowering the income tax from 5.85 percent to 5 percent. Voters who supported the measure were casting their ballots under very different economic circumstances, and it is the responsibility of our leaders to make sure that policy is able to be flexible enough to adapt to completely unforeseen events...
...Barring the unforeseen, nobody is going to come close to him,” Haggerty said...