Word: researching
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...controversy over Norplant highlights a general dissatisfaction with the state of contraception research in the U.S. Numerous other methods are being studied around the world, including a hormone-releasing IUD, a hormonal badge that is taped to the arm and releases a contraceptive through the skin, a female condom and a hormone-emitting vaginal ring, which a woman can insert and remove at will. The French abortion pill, RU-486, is being actively considered for approval in several other European countries but has not been approved in the U.S. Thanks in part to political skittishness about funding contraception...
...still so controversial that the draft stirred a great deal of debate within the Bush Administration, and the EPA released it over strong objections from the Pentagon and the White House. But now no one can deny that the issue must be taken seriously and that much more research is needed...
More study is essential. The bulk of the research being conducted on the health effects of electromagnetic radiation -- at a cost of some $10 million a year -- is paid for by the Department of Energy and the Electric Power Research Institute, neither of which is a disinterested party. The EPA used to conduct its own studies, but funding for its research was cut off by the Reagan Administration. Perhaps the best candidate for new funding would be the National Institutes for Health. The research should examine not only the effects of ELF fields but also those of less-studied radiation...
Whatever animals get the gift of intelligence, it is the player's job to nurture and protect them, guiding their technological development by directing investments in science, medicine, agriculture and the arts. But playing the Almighty, I discover, is complicated -- and dangerous. Skimp on medical research, and your SimEarthlings are pestered by plagues. Cut back in the philosophy department, and wars break out. Let the master race linger too long in the industrial age, and the planet is choked with pollution. If, on the other hand, you steer your beings adroitly toward the ages of information and nanotechnology (molecule building...
...CHIEF OF RESEARCH: Betty Satterwhite Sutter...