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...there's always a possibility that superaspirins could provoke some unforeseen side effects. Although clinical trials haven't yet revealed any problems, in many ways the real experiment doesn't begin until doctors start writing prescriptions for hundreds of thousands of people. The trouble with Duract, for example, showed up only after patients took the painkiller for several weeks--much longer than most subjects in the clinical trial. Researchers don't expect the same sort of trouble from COX-2 inhibitors. But they won't know for sure until long after the first million arthritis sufferers reach for a bottle...
...last week New Jersey learned of the measure's unforeseen consequences. According to a draft study prepared for the state health department by Rutgers University, the cap boosted New Jersey's abortion rate by an estimated 240 procedures a year. This "small but nontrivial" effect seemed to prove what antiabortion groups like the Catholic Conference have long warned: that some women having to choose between raising a child without cash benefits and having an abortion paid for by Medicaid will pick abortion. And the report is likely to become exhibit A for the American Civil Liberties Union...
Will the computer make everybody a creator? Will it undermine the very idea of the individual creator whose work has form, permanence and its own essence? Or will some unforeseen nerd genius figure out how to organize all those electrons in a dazzling new way? For now, things are shifting and blurring too fast to say. True to its theme, our century, which began by changing the old constancies, ends by making change the only constant...
Wilson said she believes the information age will entail many unforeseen consequences. She cited the problem with computers which will have trouble recognizing dates in the year 2000 as a challenge which must...
...they might, no House Committee couldprepare for everything, and many formals suffereddue to unforeseen events...