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...toll it now exacts. Under the proposed settlement, the FDA is reportedly to be granted the power to modify cigarettes in this fashion over time--without the industry's fighting it tooth and claw or the need for congressional blessing of each new round of mandated yield reductions. Of vital importance as well, the FDA would be similarly empowered to require far more conspicuous and dire health warnings on every cigarette pack and full disclosure of its harmful ingredients...
...retains a disarming faith that musicals are still a vital art form that can move people and convey serious messages. "Ragtime, Show Boat and Parade are all strong indictments of racism and anti-Semitism," says Drabinsky. "I don't know of any other medium that can make that statement as indelibly powerful as musical theater. Certainly the film studios aren't doing it. They back away all the time." Drabinsky doesn't back away; Ragtime is the latest and best proof of that...
Your article on the biotech company CellPro and the development of a new treatment for cancer [MEDICINE, May 19] left out some vital facts. The stem-cell technology used in CellPro's product to help treat its ceo, Rick Murdock, was developed not by CellPro but by the researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. To date, CellPro has paid Johns Hopkins nothing for its use of our stem-cell technology, thus depriving us of resources that could be applied to further cancer research. In March a federal jury found that CellPro willfully infringed Johns Hopkins' patents...
Dale W. Jorgenson, Abbe professor of economics and chair of the economics department, agrees, though he says he tries to allow other members of the department to provide vital input...
...independent thought and asserts that the propensity to confront authority and orthodoxy was one of the hallmarks of a great intellect. He writes: "I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions... I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways." Perhaps it is no surprise that Emerson was sometimes considered a heretic during his academic career at Harvard...