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While these results convinced both Blankenhorn and Brown that reduced cholesterol was the major contributor to the reversal, Ornish has his doubts. "If lowering cholesterol were the primary factor in causing reversal of heart disease," he notes in his book, "most of the patients in the studies by Dr. Blankenhorn and Dr. Brown who were taking cholesterol-lowering drugs should have shown reversal, since almost all of these patients had substantial decreases in blood-cholesterol levels. Yet only a minority showed reversal...
...Senate ethics committee was faced with such fine questions last week in its plodding probe of five Senators who may have gone too far in their attempt to get federal officials off the back of Charles Keating, a generous contributor to their campaigns. Keating, 66, was released on $300,000 bail last week after spending a month in a California jail awaiting trial on charges that he misled investors in his bankrupt Lincoln Savings & Loan, whose failure will cost taxpayers $2 billion. Ten months into its investigation, the committee is still trying to decide whether at least three Democratic Senators...
Still, the Administration is not reconciled to cutting Pakistan off permanently. Islamabad is the main link to U.S.-supplied mujahedin guerrillas in Afghanistan and the contributor of 2,000 troops to the gulf buildup. Two weeks ago, State Department officials sounded out Congress on extending aid without certification until elections are held in Pakistan next week. Legislators refused to go along with a waiver...
Since 1961, Kuwait has provided capital to developing Arab countries through the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development. Kuwait was a principal contributor to the Fund, established to help Egypt and Jordan recover from the 1967 and 1973 wars, and along with Saudi Arabia, has contributed to the more moderate Palestinian faction. Kuwait became one of the world's major aid donors in 1977, when its contributions reached eight percent of the gross domestic product (GDP). This percentage was the largest in the world from 1981-85. In addition, Kuwait has been active in directing economic, medical and humanitarian...
Thus, it should come as little suprise thatoutside researchers also look to Harvard as avaluable contributor to research. Paula M.Pitha-Rowe, an AIDS specialist at Johns HopkinsMedical School, says that while Harvard may not bethe leading institution for AIDS research, it iscertainly among the top few institutions for suchresearch...