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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hopeful development is that scientists have learned how to derive synthetic HDL particles from natural HDL made in the body. At the Rogosin Institute, researchers are injecting this compound into rabbits to see if raising HDL protects them against atherosclerosis. Should such experiments succeed, it is conceivable that synthetic HDL could one day become an effective treatment for heart patients. Rogosin's Gordon notes, however, that this research "is still years away from clinical application...
...Khan announced that Benazir Bhutto, the leader of the Pakistan People's Party, would become the first female Prime Minister of a Muslim country, chanting crowds surged through the streets, and fireworks lighted the sky. Excitement rose to fever pitch as Bhutto, 35, was sworn in at the presidential compound in Islamabad...
Scientists at a number of centers are also trying to develop ways to increase the body's own production of red blood cells. Doctors at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago are testing a technique that seems to fill the bill. They use a genetically engineered copy of a compound called erythropoietin, a hormone made in the kidneys that controls red-cell production...
Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci asked the city manager to give him a breakdown of the chemicals used in processing tap water--aluminum sulfate, a fluoride compound, chlorine for disinfection, sodium hydroxide for corrosion control and calcium hyperchloride to balance pH levels...
...street clashes following the takeover by General Saw Maung, who took power in a coup last September. Since then, more students and other protesters have been arrested or shot. Government employees deemed sympathetic to the democracy movement are being purged from their jobs. Troops are everywhere, even in the compound of the Shwedagon Pagoda, Burma's holiest shrine. "They have stripped away the pseudosocialist camouflage that ((former President)) Ne Win put over the army in the 1970s," says a Western observer in Rangoon. "It has always been a military government. Now it's a nakedly military government...