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...Consumer Reports in July examined homeopathic treatments for vaginal yeast infections, noting that the 28X dilution means that "the mixture had 10 trillion quadrillion times as much of the inert ingredients as active ingredients." To stimulate the body's defenses with little--or none--of the original medication, scientists contend, would require a miracle...
Kamchatka, however, must contend with the same pressures as the rest of Russia. Sinchenko admits that the government is under great pressure to replace the subsidies and remittances that ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Ecologists are worried that the local government will finance those expenses on the back of the environment by opening Kamchatka's rich mineral reserves to development. David Gordon of the Pacific Environment Resources Center, a California-based environmental group that has focused its efforts on threats to Siberia, notes that even now an American-Russian joint venture is preparing to mine gold...
...highly respected forensic expert testified in the O.J. Simpson murder trial that blood on victim Ron Goldman's clothing could have come from a shoe--but not the Bruno Magli shoe that prosecutors contend was worn by the killer. There was still no ruling on the admissibility of tapes that allegedly contain racist remarks and confessions of evidence planting by recently retired L.A.P.D. detective Mark Fuhrman, a key prosecution witness. Fuhrman's lawyer said his client might seek Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination if he takes the stand again...
...impartially if 11 hours of taped interviews with prosecution witness Detective Mark Fuhrman were introduced as evidence. The interviews allegedly contain derogatory comments about Ito's wife Captain Margaret York, who is the L.A.P.D.'s highest-ranking female officer. (More to the evidentiary point, Simpson defense lawyers contend that the tapes contain passages in which Fuhrman discusses framing suspects, and 30 instances of his using the word nigger-language he earlier testified he had not used in 10 years.) By week's end, however, all sides agreed that Ito should continue to preside over the case, and another judge ruled...
Willes says the downsizing is just prudent management. "Expenses at the L.A. Times are higher than at other newspapers," he explains. "To get our returns back up to a competitive level, we have to get staffing down." But some contend that the Chandler family, which owns controlling shares of Times Mirror, is at fault for taking huge dividends instead of reinvesting in the company. Willes, said one L.A. Times veteran, "is a hit man for the Chandler cousins...