Mr. Leibell said that the inquiry was spurred by a political rival and that he had done nothing wrong.
Officials pointed out that the inquiry was spurred by a referral from the city's Administration for Children's Services.
The Senate inquiry was spurred in part by the release last year of a special issue of a medical publication, The Spine Journal.
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He charged that the inquiry had been spurred by unfair and unfounded characterizations of his business and political dealings in the local news media.
Todd Oppenheimer, the author of a 2003 book, "The Flickering Mind: The False Promise of Technology in the Classroom and How Learning Can Be Saved," said the worth of computerized instruction depended on how it was used and how much it spurred inquiry.
A Mormon? Now, with the possible candidacy of Fred D. Thompson, the grandfatherly actor and former Republican senator from Tennessee, whose second wife is almost a quarter-century his junior, comes a less palatable inquiry that is spurring debate in Internet chat rooms, on cable television and on talk radio: Is America ready for a president with a trophy wife?
All the same, having serious genetic damage accompany any part of this revolutionary technique will surely (or at least hopefully) spur inquiry and countermeasures, even if it means tapping the brakes on certain existing therapies, experiments and companies.
Furthermore, the possibility that some ANAs are protective could spur inquiry into new biological therapies based on the paradigm, now so well established with anti-HMGB1 antibodies, that ANAs can block disease by eliminating deleterious nuclear material.
There is enough here about every aspect of Milton's life, work and legacy to spur further inquiry.
