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...candidate perceived as least likely to brook internal dissent is Manuel Bartlett Diaz. After successfully coordinating De la Madrid's presidential campaign, he was designated Secretary of the Interior. In that capacity, Bartlett, 51, had responsibility for overseeing the elections in Chihuahua, which many Mexicans believe were fraudulent. The third hopeful, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Minister of Planning and Budget, is credited with great intelligence and thought to be the most likely of the contenders to favor party reform. But Salinas has some deficits. He is young, only 39. And he has a reputation for dishing out criticism...
...present, a drainage pipe transfers materials from three state highway routes, 128, 2, and 2A, directly into the Hobbs Brook (Cambridge) Reservior, said Flaherty's assistant...
...judge, under controlled conditions, any long-range effects of AZT, which might be as dangerous as the untreated disease. In fact, some people taking AZT have developed anemia and suffered bone-marrow degeneration. "AZT may be a genie that we are letting out of the bottle," says Dr. Itzhak Brook, chairman of the FDA advisory committee and the only dissenter in the vote. Dr. Maxime Seligmann, a French immunologist who has experimented with AZT at the Hopital St.-Louis in Paris, agrees: "There simply isn't enough knowledge about the benefits of the drug compared to the toxic effects...
...coasts. People in Great Falls, Mont., can look out their windows and see 60 miles to the start of the Rockies, blue-purple in the south. The mountains glow orange in New Mexico. In Vermont, your foot cracks snow like wafers around a part of the woods where a brook, not yet frozen, applauds itself in a rush. High over Iowa a hawk hangs still, watching a small boy kick a box in the road...
...many doctors will not yet order the test. "There is still a school of thought that believes, 'No pain, no worry,' " says Peter Cohn, chief of cardiology at the State University of New York's Health Sciences Center at Stony Brook. He recommends annual testing only for people who are at risk because of diabetes, smoking, high cholesterol, high blood pressure or a family history of heart disease. Healthy people not at risk probably should not be concerned, he says. Men at risk should begin testing between the ages of 35 and 40; women...