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...phytoestrogens have become popular alternatives to standard HRT. Sales of supplements that contain soy isoflavones, a form of phytoestrogen, tripled from 1998 to 1999. Some women also take vitamin E for hot flashes, while others are turning to remedies based on such exotics as black cohosh, flaxseed, red clover, dong quai and wild...
...political objective, and cannot be a moral objective of any American President." In 1995 Clinton vetoed legislation that would have required the deployment of a missile shield by 2003, saying there was no threat justifying such a deployment. But in 1998, North Korea test-fired the Taepo Dong-1, a long-range, three-stage missile that indicated Pyongyang was well on its way to building a missile capable of reaching U.S. soil. And so, last year, Clinton signed the National Missile Defense Act into law. It calls for the construction of an antimissile system "as soon as technologically possible...
...Dong-Kwan Lee, an assistant editor from South Korea, Consuelo Saavedra, a television reporter, anchor and editor from Chile and Senad Pecanin, an editor from Bosnia and Herzegovina, were also named. Other Nieman fellows will include Sayuri Daimon, a reporter for The Japan Times; Jingcao Hu, director of China Central Television; and Anil Padmanabhan, economic affairs editor of The Business Standard in India...
DIED. PHAM VAN DONG, 94, Vietnam's tough and erudite Prime Minister for three decades during the war against the U.S. and the country's subsequent reunification; in Hanoi. A founder of the Viet Minh and an architect of the communist revolution that drove out the French colonials in 1954, he became communist chief Ho Chi Minh's steadfast administrative workhorse...
...wanted someone to do the things that John Lithgow was dong to increase the visibility of arts on campus," says John D. Miller, an HAA regional director...