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...mandate. As Kessler reminded the panelists several times during the proceedings, their only task was to decide whether they were reasonably certain that olestra was harmless. Says the commissioner: "It was very important to me to make sure that everyone on that advisory committee understand that framework. The questions were not, 'Does this product make sense? Does this product contribute to the nutritional health of the nation?' That is not the standard...
...real European defense component, because there is no civilization that can survive for long if it is not capable of defending itself. So I think that we must create a sort of European defense pillar around the Western European Union, naturally linked to the American pillar within the framework of the Atlantic Alliance. Second, it is evident that the Atlantic Alliance must expand eastward. But I say simply that we must be careful to reach an agreement with the Russians that will permit this enlargement without threatening or humiliating them. Russia is a great power, a great people...
...Cambrian explosion, the more singular it seems. And just as the peculiar behavior of light forced physicists to conclude that Newton's laws were incomplete, so the Cambrian explosion has caused experts to wonder if the twin Darwinian imperatives of genetic variation and natural selection provide an adequate framework for understanding evolution. "What Darwin described in the Origin of Species," observes Queen's University paleontologist Narbonne, "was the steady background kind of evolution. But there also seems to be a non-Darwinian kind of evolution that functions over extremely short time periods - and that's where all the action...
Constitution. The two halves of the new Bosnian nation--the Croat-Muslim federation and the Bosnian Serb "entity''--will be brought under the umbrella of a central government. The framework calls for a collective presidency, whose chairman will rotate among a Muslim, a Serb and a Croat; a constitutional court; and a multiethnic parliament...
...come to the point where I will almost always defer to Dole's judgment about decisions that involve certain kinds of tactical risks. I now know that I can be very risk-taking conceptually because I know that Bob will modify it and keep me in a framework that yields a higher probability of success...