Word: vitalness
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...weary veterans. Joe Kerrigan and his staff coaxed as much as they could from the likes of Brett Saberhagen, Rod Beck and Tomo Okha—but such a staff could clearly never be expected to win a World Series. The injury to Pedro Martinez was, of course, vital, but even before he went down the staff looked decidedly thin. His injury was merely a convenient peg for a slide that would have doubtless occurred at some point with a patchy staff that had only two quality starters, one of whose success—Hideo Nomo?...
...tell the truth. We are, after all, a democratic society. And our nation is the only nation in the world with the ability to act as a mediator in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Efforts to hide the truth from the American public only undermine our position in playing this vital role...
...painting. Jim Rees, Mount Vernon's executive director, declares that Washington "at age 23 was already the action hero of his times." Using the skills of a forensic scientist, a plastic surgeon and a life mask of the President's face, Mount Vernon will create a more youthful and vital portrait and build a new orientation center, education center and museum to play up his action-hero side. Steven Spielberg is even making a new 15-min. bio film. Indiana George and the Battle of Trenton, maybe? --By Melissa August
Nobody is suggesting that it be shut down completely. Clinical trials are a vital and necessary part of 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...
...thought of only as statue-soiling, vermin-carrying rats with wings. But India's eastern state of Orissa holds the urban nuisances in greater esteem. Since the end of World War II, the Orissa police department has employed some 600 trained pigeons as official messengers. Capable of ferrying vital letters at up to 80 km/h to remote police outposts, the stalwart birds proved more reliable than the region's hopelessly erratic telephone network, especially during cyclone season when high winds frequently downed lines. But, as successful as the pigeon program has proved, it's soon to be phased...