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...involved in choosing the dozen presidential scholars coming for lunch as in wrestling with the wording of minor speeches. He was reluctant to let even minor White House proclamations go out without review. He recently barked at an aide who tried to release a statement on ethanol, saying he had to run it by two Midwestern Senators -- personally. "It's almost a throwback to the old ( days when Presidents did everything themselves," said an official. Added another: "He tries to keep all these balls in the air. He could get away with it in Little Rock. He was smart enough...
...researchers, Wing-Ming Keung and Bert L. Vallee, write that the Syrian Golden hamster ordinarily "prefers and consumes large quantities of ethanol" to supplement its diet of Purina Rodent Laboratory Chow...
...injection of the extract of the kudzu root, a Chinese herb, led the hamsters to "significantly suppress the free-choice ethanol intake" without any negative side effects...
...These results suggest this ethanol-drinking animal model has high 'predictive validity' and can be used effectively in the search for and identification of new agents for the treatment of alcohol abuse," the study said...
Leonard Charles Johnson died on May 11 from a stroke, compounded by ethanol abuse, according to his death certificate. He was a 45-year-old Vietnam veteran living alone in a rooming house in Cambridge...