Word: watchdogging
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...When I proposed this idea, people thought it was crazy," says Kenneth Culver, an oncology researcher at the National Cancer Institute. But it worked like a charm. In 11 of the 14 rats, the tumors disappeared completely. The results were so promising that an NIH watchdog committee has already okayed a similar test on humans. The risks are high. The researchers will, in effect, be putting mouse genes directly into human brains. But the payoff could be great. Scientists are now searching for other inoperable cancers that might succumb to what they are calling "molecular surgery...
Still others applauded the creation of a U.N. Sustainable Development Commission, modeled on the Human Rights Commission, which will use public criticism and pressure to hold governments to account for achieving the goals laid out in Rio. Whether the new commission becomes a real watchdog will be determined later this year when U.N. nations decide whether to make it a body composed of government ministers or of officials at the margins of influence...
...lack of leadership by governments, Maurice Strong, the summit's secretary-general, hopes ordinary people will force politicians to live up to the obligations articulated at Rio. He plans to make his own contribution to this grass-roots movement by heading an Earth Council, which he sees as a watchdog organization like the Helsinki Watch groups that sprang up after the 1975 Helsinki accords on human rights. The Earth Council's goal would be to ensure that institutions such as the Sustainable Development Commission actually do their...
Stung by criticism of lax enforcement, the SEC has been pressured into cracking down. The watchdog agency has opened a raft of investigations into cases involving corporate insiders in recent months. In one of its toughest actions to date, the SEC last October filed insider-trading charges against three top officers at Shared Medical Systems. The executives, including CEO R. James Macaleer, are accused of making false statements about Shared Medical's financial health and then selling 157,400 shares, at 35 to 4114 each, before the Malvern, Pa., company disclosed a sudden sharp decline in its earnings. The news...
...EDITOR: Ira E. Scoll '94 EDITORIAL EDITOR: John A. Cloud '93 PHOTOGRAPHY EDITORS: Amanda M. Dawson '94 Michael D. Rosenbaum '94 BUSINESS EDITORS: Nelson E. Famadas '94 Young Jin Lee '94 Michael A. Schoen '93 DESIGN EDITORS: James Cham '95 Nancy E. Greene '95 Dante E. A. Ramos '93 WATCHDOG Max Tucker STUFF CHAIRS: Alessandra M. Galloni '95 Elie G. Kaunfer...