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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...October 1990 meeting of the Army Ethics committee concerned itself with abotulinum toxoid vaccine, and they weren't too pleased with what laboratory research into the drug had turned up. Army physicians weren't confident it would work, and the committee decided it should not be used on troops without "an abbreviated oral informed consent statement." In other words, they should be told. But the Department of Defense nixed that, and went ahead with thousands of warning-free botulism jabs in the run-up to the Gulf...
...except two basketball backboards and hoops without nets. Now the hoops have nets, and the triangle has been transformed into a smooth, attractive greensward edged with shrubs. In the center stands a shiny yellow swing-and-slide set. "Truthfully, this park wouldn't be here," says Roberts, "if it weren't for Adam's group...
...money industry and labor interests he needs in 2000 will scream. Which is why Gore's political advisers tried to talk him out of going to Kyoto, cornering him in a White House hallway a week before the conference began. Gore shut the argument down. "If I weren't going to run for President, there would be no discussion of whether I should go," he said. "I'm going...
...They weren't the only ones. In February a FORTUNE article documented the unfolding family discord. Vulture investors began buying up stakes and pressing a sale or spin-off of Dow Jones Markets (estimated 1996 sales: $833 million). One investor, Michael Price of Franklin Mutual Advisers, snapped up 6% of Dow Jones and vociferously pushed for a sale of the whole company...
...helps if you have a young star like Rimes. In the past few years country's familiar gents and studs have been pushing fewer CDs, and the ladies have been pushing them aside. Country would be in an even deeper funk if it weren't for Rimes and Shania Twain, the Canadian power thrush whose The Woman in Me sold 10 million copies. Their new albums--Rimes' You Light Up My Life and Twain's Come On Over, both of which have topped the charts--are more significant as product than as music...