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...most cases, if a drug is proved effective in men, it will do the same job in women. But not always. The information gap becomes important when the sexes respond differently to a given treatment. For example, the menstrual cycle is known to alter the effect of some antidepressant drugs...
That uncertainty has convinced Parsons and other state and local officials across Massachusetts that it is time to alter the 10 year-old tax limitation...
While no plans to alter Prop 2 1/2 are on the table for immediate discussion, a number of suggestions are circulating through the State House...
...reporter hates to lose a story, especially at the behest of a Communist diplomat who makes house calls. But journalists also have to be careful about a version of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle in physics: sometimes by observing -- and reporting -- a phenomenon, we alter it, perhaps to the detriment of people who have cooperated with us. If, as Lukanov feared, publishing a profile of him were to end a career that was supposedly so promising, then not only would I have burned my source but I would also have misinformed my readers. So I swallowed hard and sent a cable...
...heroine even she couldn't love. Leila Sand is blond, randy and famous -- as a painter of "vaginal art." She is fortyish but still, she keeps assuring us, attractive: "I don't look worse than a 22-year-old -- to some men I look better." And like all Jong alter egos, she is looking for love in all the wrong places. The result is the bitter lament of a successful woman sexually obsessed with a much younger man. Leila keeps citing Colette and Cheri, but Cher comes more readily to mind. Come to think of it, so does Norma Desmond...