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NATIONAL Ethics rules at NIH criticized Scientists at the National Institutes of Health, rebelling against stringent new rules restricting their outside activities and finances, plan to meet today with agency director Elias A. Zerhouni to propose an alternative set of ethics regulations. [Page 1a] Health care costs to surge U.S. spending on health care will outpace overall inflation and wage growth over the next 10 years, making medical care harder for the government, employers, workers and uninsured Americans to afford.