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...what's the FDA's position? Says Dr. Janet Woodcock, director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research: "There's no structure set up for regulating a pharmacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Drugs Cost So Much / The Issues '04: Why We Pay So Much for Drugs | 2/2/2004 | See Source »

...obvious solution to the energy crisis, though not the one Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney want to see, is conservation, mandated improvement of energy efficiency and development of renewable sources of energy. Pretty simple--unless your primary goal is increased profits for oil companies. CHARLENE M. WOODCOCK Berkeley, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 11, 2003 | 8/11/2003 | See Source »

...trainer, William Woodcock, convince Peggy and Anna May to do this? How did he tell them to tumble forward? You can't just ask politely. This is not something elephants do in the wild. It is not easy to teach this move to a human, much less a mammal the size of a dumptruck. The other elephant tricks were expected, but the headstand seemed supernatural...

Author: By William H. Bachman, | Title: A Day With The CIRCUS | 4/23/1992 | See Source »

...loveliest, most self-revealing story appears near the end. Birds of a Feather is an ode to the woodcock, that plucky, reclusive little game bird of the uplands. Preparatory to a hunt in upstate New York, Humphrey reads up on the bird. "He gets curiouser and curiouser. His brain is upside down. His ears are in front of his nose . . . Like the woodcock, I too am an odd bird; I know I am, and I would change if I could, because being odd is uncomfortable, but, no more than the woodcock can, I can't, not anymore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rare Bird Open Season | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

When the group switched from using anon-Harvard writer to Mark Woodcock, who graduatedfrom Harvard in 1965, the plans really started tocome together, remembers Walker. "We started toopen up thoughts and ideas on how we could bothreflect on history modestly--not to bebraggadicio--yet keep the evententertaining and one that would be a celebration...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: From the Olympics To Harvard | 8/8/1986 | See Source »

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