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Calling the decision a "significant change," Wilson said both Radcliffe and Harvard will benefit from fewer constraints on fundraising and the ability to seek large endowment gifts, while alumni will also gain increased flexibility in their donations...
Psyllium is not exactly a household staple, but the obscure grain has provoked a kitchen-table brawl between General Mills and Procter & Gamble. Psyllium contains soluble fiber, which has been shown to reduce cholesterol levels. The grain is an ingredient in Benefit, a new breakfast cereal General Mills introduced in May. Psyllium is also found in Metamucil, one of P&G's fiber laxatives. But while General Mills is allowed to advertise that Benefit helps to reduce cholesterol, P&G is forbidden to make the same claim for its laxative unless it can get FDA approval, which...
...urged the FDA to order the cereal off the market. But General Mills, which has limited Benefit's sales mostly to the Midwest, intends to fight back. Says a spokesman: "There's no question that it's a food and not a drug. It's packaged like a cereal, it looks like a cereal, and it's sold like a cereal...
Many doctors have long suspected that the drug AZT could benefit the estimated 100,000 to 200,000 Americans who are infected with the AIDS virus but who have not yet developed full-blown symptoms. Last week a federal study showed that they were right. "This is the first clear proof that early intervention makes a difference," says Jerome Groopman, a physician with New England Deaconess Hospital in Boston. "It's exciting, and it's a finding of real importance...
...billion in new credits. That is much less than the 55% debt relief, or $29.7 billion, that Mexico originally asked for. Under the new agreement, "we shall not see spectacular results from night to morning," Salinas acknowledged in his broadcast. But the agreement produced an almost immediate benefit in restoring some confidence in Mexico's financial stability. Domestic interest rates, which had risen to 56% this year, have fallen 20 percentage points in the past three weeks because financiers anticipated the debt deal. That shift, which will reduce Mexico's cost of financing its budget deficits, gives the country another...