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...implicit message that we were taking sides in the election. We asked the Bush- Quayle campaign to withdraw the ad, and when they refused, we filed suit. , Last week, in a hearing before a federal judge in Washington, lawyers for the Bush-Quayle campaign said the commercial had been withdrawn as of Oct. 21 and would not be used again...
...wake of intense lobbying, the FDA will now consider granting conditional approval to experimental treatments for terminal diseases for which there are few or no medical alternatives. This is a radical shift for the nation's pharmaceutical watchdog. Drugs conditionally approved will be closely monitored and withdrawn if they prove to be too toxic or ineffective. "We may be wrong," says FDA Commissioner David Kessler, "but with life- threatening illnesses, those risks are acceptable...
...related fields, including fetal-cell research. Although the U.S. is still a world leader in molecular genetics, a report by the congressional Office of Technology Assessment recently concluded that the country is now "less than well prepared" to put its scientific findings into clinical practice. "The U.S. government has withdrawn funding from this field," says Britain's Handyside, who is understandably proud of helping produce baby Chloe. "They wouldn't be able to do this work in Houston...
...current politicians is not the skills of the operator but the goal toward which those skills should, all the while, be working. In a way, the long crusade against communism gave an easy goal for politicians to invoke and the electorate to pursue. But now that this is withdrawn, there is no sense of a great mission for the country. President Bush lacks a "vision thing." Governor Clinton is accused of saying what people want, not -- as Lincoln did -- to get them to do what they should want, but simply to please & as many as possible as much as possible...
...Wars and Tender Mercies, is a skilled and subtle observer. She pays careful, measured attention to the reactions of Carolyn, Jacob's mother, a pediatrician who believes that truth is too important for compromise; Ben, a talented sculptor who lies combatively for his son; and Judith, a bright, somewhat withdrawn girl who even before the crime was troubled by her brother's unruly sexuality. But too much care, too much measuring, give the novel a somewhat mechanical quality that prevents it from being first rate. Parents and sister are complex and believable, but seem chosen from a casting service...