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...even if they will still be able to see it. If it is too far away, the light may have shifted into the ultraviolet range, which means the search could have to wait for NASA's Next Generation Space Telescope, Hubble's successor, which is still in the design phase...
...will never be created for people like Bruno - if companies feel they can never fire workers. The unions staunchly oppose the reforms, which they say will only drag the rest of the workforce toward Bruno's "precarious" status. At the center of the debate is Berlusconi's plan to phase out Article 18 of the Italian Workers' Statute, which forces companies to rehire unjustly fired workers rather than simply pay out monetary damages. Though it generates only a sprinkling of cases each year, Article 18 has become an all-or-nothing battle cry for both camps, which...
Ariel Sharon has ended the first phase of his West Bank offensive, but its fallout will shake up the region for months to come - and imperil U.S. efforts to rekindle a peace process. Israel withdrew its tanks to the edge of more Palestinian towns Monday, although it maintained its sieges of Yasser Arafat's Ramallah compound and the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. Israeli forces didn't fully leave the area; instead, they withdrew to self-declared buffer zones, from which they have continued to strike at will. But it's not only those ongoing operations that preclude...
Many critics also point to the consent forms people sign when they join a clinical trial. Even when the risks are clearly spelled out--and they frequently aren't--patients tend to misunderstand what's actually going on. The truth is that less than 5% of subjects in Phase I trials, which measure the toxicity of a new drug, will receive any health benefit whatsoever. Yet when a 1995 University of Chicago study quizzed patients about why they enrolled in their Phase I cancer trials, fully 85% answered, "Possible therapeutic benefit...
Going strictly by the numbers, Nocera's case is not typical. Most clinical trials--80%, according to one report--have trouble mustering enough volunteers to get started. But for the desperately ill, a clinical trial often represents one last chance--even if that chance is participation in a Phase I study unlikely to help them. "The cancer patients I work with are an ignored species," says Duke University researcher Dr. Johannes Vieweg. "Nobody wants to deal with them because there's so little that can be done. We try to address their unmet needs...