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...Senate unanimously confirmed former Kansas Congressman Dan Glickman as Agriculture Secretary. He replaces Mike Espy, who left under the cloud of an independent-counsel investigation into charges that he had received favors from companies under his purview...
...ideal situation, this kind of espionage would come under the purview of an international authority such as the United Nations. But who would believe that the U.N. could administrate a fair and yet effective arm for this altruistic espionage? Even such a broadly-based group, which would inevitably be perceived as the instrument of the United States, would find its share of avowed enemies and alienate a fair number of smaller U.N. members...
...test for suicide -- the eighth leading cause of death in the U.S. -- sounds incredible. Yet it is only one of the promising developments being pursued in the hot new field of biological psychiatry. What was once the purview of priests and analysts, who try to probe the mind by listening and observing, is now a frontier for neuroscientists, who use blood tests, brain scans and spinal taps. Psychiatrists at some research centers are already using these tools to distinguish among types of depression and schizophrenia, and predict with some degree of certainty the best course of treatment for their patients...
...third option would radically restructure the FAS. All of the resources for undergraduates, graduates, and faculty would come under the purview of three to four "area academic deans...
Even if Boateng had in fact been the debtor, Smith said, the Coop employees "were not within the purview of appropriate credit collection policy to injure students...