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...assistance. "We have hostiles in the woods," he cried. "We are being invaded!" But no one came to his aid, and his supporters were beginning to trickle away. Even the ambassador's wife had decided to leave the combination lean-to and trailer that was designated the "embassy compound." Thus, shortly after 4 p.m. on Saturday, with barely the pretense of extraterritoriality, Rick McLaren, self-declared "ambassador, consul-general and chief foreign legal officer" of the separatist Republic of Texas, ended his 6 1/2-day standoff against America, laid down 10 rifles and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, and agreed...
...already opened new possibilities for therapy. A number of well-tolerated MAO B-inhibitor drugs developed to treat Parkinson's disease could find a place in the antismoking arsenal. Equally promising, a Yale University team led by Eric Nestler and David Self has found that another type of compound--one that targets the dopamine receptor known as D1--seems to alleviate, at least in rats, the intense craving that accompanies withdrawal from cocaine. One day, suggests Self, a D1 skin patch might help cocaine abusers kick their habit, just as the nicotine patch attenuates the desire to smoke...
Like methadone, the compound that activates D1 appears to be what is known as a partial agonist. Because such medications stimulate some of the same brain pathways as drugs of abuse, they are often addictive in their own right, though less so. And while treating heroin addicts with methadone may seem like a cop-out to people who have never struggled with a drug habit, clinicians say they desperately need more such agents to tide addicts--particularly cocaine addicts--over the first few months of treatment, when the danger of relapse is highest...
...scientists have begun to do just that. A report published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine shows for the first time that the mental deterioration of Alzheimer's can be slowed significantly by two common drugs: vitamin E and selegiline, a compound used to treat Parkinson's disease. The two-year study conducted by the National Institute on Aging showed that normal doses of selegiline or high doses of vitamin E, both of which are antioxidants, slowed the rate of disability among patients with moderately severe Alzheimer's by an average of seven months. Neither drug reversed...
...structures in place that will prevent those mistakes from recurring," says Freeh. After Waco and Ruby Ridge, he created a new, less paramilitary "crisis-management unit" and completely overhauled the way the bureau handles hostage situations. In the spring of 1996, when the Montana Freemen holed up in their compound near Billings, FBI agents were under far stricter rules of engagement. They could use deadly force only if they or hostages faced "imminent death or serious physical injury." At Billings the FBI also deployed a new unit called the Critical Incident Response Group of behavioral scientists and hostage negotiators...