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Alpert contributed $500,000 to the Medical School several years ago to launch a new curriculum, the New Pathway program, that is based on case study methods. In 1987, he endowed the Warren Alpert Foundation Prize, administered by the School and awarded annually to those biomedical researchers judged to have made significant progress toward curing diseases...
...very closely," Bill Clinton said last week. "We have no reason to be concerned that the command-and-control procedures have been interrupted." That process is more complicated in Russia than in Washington, where Clinton has instant access to the "nuclear football," an attache case containing the codes that launch U.S. missiles...
According to a new study by Bruce Blair of the Brookings Institution, the Russian President and Defense Minister must jointly transmit an order to fire missiles to the uniformed chiefs of the general staff and the rocket forces, who both hold the launch codes. This Russian form of group responsibility depends on the military's obedience to political leaders. If Yeltsin was ever forced out of office, Vice President Alexander Rutskoi would be his legal successor; if Yeltsin refused to accept dismissal, which of the two would the generals choose to obey? Whatever they might decide, the ability to launch...
...RUSSIA STRUGGLES TO HOLD TOGETHER, ITS SPACE PROGRAM is falling apart. At the BAIKONUR COSMODROME in Kazakhstan -- the Russian equivalent of the Kennedy Space Center -- civilian workers have been looting equipment, crippling the facility's launch pad in the process. The Russian space program is also involved in a feud with the new Ukrainian state, which has its own space program. A Russian meteorological satellite was turned off in orbit, so Ukraine couldn't recover weather data from it. Some of the stolen Baikonur equipment has mysteriously resurfaced in Ukraine. Understandably, the disarray of Russia's once great space program...
WOULD YOU PAY MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FOR SOMETHING YOU don't need, don't want and won't use? If you're an American taxpayer, you may have no choice. Israel has staged a successful rocket launch with its ARROW anti-tactical missile system, a feat that will help bolster arguments that U.S. funding of the Israeli / project should continue. To strengthen Israel's security, the U.S. has spent $126 million on the Arrow and plans to pick up two-thirds of the projected $322 million in future development costs. The U.S. has no plans to purchase the system...