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Pumping iron is a healthy exercise -- even for the elderly, according to a new study of 80 and 90-year-olds. Researchers found a significant improvement in walking speeds and ability to climb stairs after several weeks of weight-lifting. The new data confirm results from a smaller sampling of older Americans studied four years ago, which indicated that the onset of physical disabilities during the later years of life was due in part to a loss of leg muscle...
...White House says it will ask the North Koreans to return to the negotiating table if Pyongyang will only confirm the offer it reportedly made to Jimmy Carter -- to stop its nuclear progam. Today's move by the Administration is the latest attempt to clarify just where the U.S. stands diplomatically in the wake of the former President's visit to North Korea. The White House has halted its drive in the U.N. for trade sanctions against the isolated communist country while it waits for Pyongyang's response...
...Laotian fieldworkers under contract to New York's Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) say they have taken blood samples from a live specimen of one of the creatures -- the giant muntjac -- in a menagerie owned by a Laotian military group. If they are correct, studies of the captive animal could confirm the claim made earlier this year by Vietnamese scientists and MacKinnon concerning the giant muntjac. MacKinnon analyzed a skull brought to him by Do Tuoc and Shanthini Dawson, an Indian biologist. It resembled that $ of a muntjac, also known as a barking deer, but the head and antlers were much...
...that magnanimous message has been undercut by reports of rebels killing the Hutu as they flee the country. In the huge camps of northwestern Tanzania, a number of refugees are telling stories of massacres that they claim are committed by the R.P.F. Those tales are difficult to confirm -- and the rebels argue that they have been planted by militia in the camps as a way of deflecting blame from their own misdeeds -- but the effect is the same. The Tutsi have a long way to go before convincing all Hutu that their intentions are genuine and that the cycle...
Fitzsimmons refuses to confirm or refute the consortium's statistics, but said last year that Harvard does belong to the consortium and participates in its studies. He also says that the scores of any particular subgroups show that "all minority groups are well within the normal range for the institution as a whole...