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...Duty. Personalities and minor issues aside, the crucial debate in and around FDA centers on the question: How shall it discharge its duty to protect the public against useless or dangerous drugs? There can be no simple answer because the law, and therefore the duty, have changed almost as fast as drugs have changed...
...this antibiotic (Parke, Davis' Chloromycetin). It is unquestionably the best drug against half a dozen uncommon diseases and a few medical conditions that should be treated in hospitals. But it is often prescribed to avert the aftereffects of a common cold, for which it is useless and also dangerous, because it may cause death from anemia...
...stronghold in the brawling boom town of Calcutta. There were 50,000 regulars in the Nawab's army, and in the fort only 515 Europeans able to bear arms -such arms as were available. Thanks to Governor Roger Drake, a 34-year-old ineffectual, fifty cannon were rusted useless, and almost all the powder was too damp to burn...
While we realize that, if the College is in real financial distress, it would be useless to protest the raise in rates per cent, we feel that strong efforts ought to be made to improve some of the outstanding defects in present and future living conditions at Radcliffe. First, what specifically caused the change in room rates? Perhaps a cost efficiency analysis of Radcliffe's use of funds would show that the necessary money could be procured some other way, leaving off-campus living intact...
...normally compulsory, teachers do not browbeat the boys into studying. "As soon as you crack down on them, they just freeze," explains a teacher at the Illinois State Training School for Boys in St. Charles. The kids have to be stimulated to learn, rather than threatened. "Threats are useless," contends Sam Jones, a teacher at the Fred C. Nelles School for Boys in Whittier, Calif. "These kids have been threatened by masters...