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Merck proceeded to develop lovastatin in earnest. Over the next four years the drug was tested on 750 people. Result: their LDL levels dropped by 19% to 39%. Although other drugs, such as cholestyramine and nicotinic acid, can reduce cholesterol levels significantly, they seem to work best on people whose levels are not very high. Lovastatin's greater effectiveness, Grundy explains, lies in its ability to inhibit cholesterol production in the liver, preventing further arterial blockage...
Visitors to the lab, a sleek four-story maze of gadget-filled work areas, are assaulted by strange sights. In a 64-ft.-high atrium, 7-ft.-long computer- controlled blimps may be flying overhead -- part of a project to develop stimulating science activities for elementary and high schools. In another area visitors encounter computers that can read lips. After spending three months at M.I.T. last year, Stewart Brand, the counterculture guru who originated the Whole Earth Catalog, was impressed enough to write a flattering book titled The Media Lab, which will be published next month by Viking Press...
...troubles these units have experienced raise questions about whether the Pentagon ever can -- or should -- develop a covert operations and intelligence capacity to handle paramilitary missions that are beyond the scope of the civilians in the CIA. In some form there may be a legitimate need for secret, specially trained units to operate in behalf of approved U.S. foreign policy goals. Looking back on the secret operations he helped to begin, General Meyer, who retired as Army Chief of Staff in 1983, muses, "I think the lesson is that whatever kind of operation we conduct needs to have oversight...
...runs, Nunn's strategy is likely to be South Toward Home. He would probably downplay Iowa and hope to survive New Hampshire in the middle of the pack. "Nunn understands that he can't run as the 'conservative' in the race," says a Democratic strategist who has helped develop a possible campaign plan. "He would have to run as the tribune of the rank-and-file Democrats, the people who are locked out by the special interests and the activist establishment." Vital to a Nunn candidacy would be his likely support by the black leadership of Atlanta, especially John Lewis...
Should researchers pinpoint that genetic defect, the next step will be to develop a simple diagnostic test. Doctors now recommend that everyone over 50 periodically undergo routine, if unpleasant, examinations with a proctosigmoidoscope, a hollow, lighted tube that is inserted in the colon to look for signs of cancer. A blood test that could alert people that they carried a greater risk of developing colorectal cancer might motivate them to seek frequent checkups...