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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Short kids don't have it easy. They are pitied by playmates and picked on by bullies. More worrisome to some parents, short kids often grow up into short adults. Today many unhappy youngsters and their families have their hopes pinned on what is being touted as a medical fix to the problem: injections of a synthetic version of human growth hormone (HGH). But efforts to test the drug have exploded into a medical and ethical controversy. The chief issue: Can an experiment that gives healthy children a drug simply to change their looks be justified...
...This week's story reflects his opinion that American orchestras are the best in the world and his confidence that they can survive the recessionary hard times. "There is nothing wrong with U.S. orchestras that a few managers with vision and a few conductors with innovative repertories couldn't fix," he says...
...spawning grounds. Observes Shawn Cantrell, director of Friends of the Earth's Northwest Rivers Project: "If the final decision is made to remove the dams, it will be a statement by our national government that past exploitation of our natural resources can be corrected. We can go back and fix the mistakes we made in previous generations...
...civil liberties advocacy organization, CLUH may be hard to fix on a political spectrum. However, I hope that our efforts to protect and expand students' rights, be they that of free speech or the right to associate, have not been overlooked in campus debates. Jol Silversmith '94 Former director, CLUH
Many citizens of Los Angeles felt as strongly last week that a Perot clone had arrived in city hall. Immediately after conservative millionaire Riordan won his first election by defeating liberal city councilman Michael Woo 54% to 46%, he was already displaying a get-under-the-hood-and fix-it itchiness. He flew to Sacramento to start hammering state politicians for help in reducing the city's budget deficit, which may reach $500 million this year. He declared he would solve problems by using "simple management techniques," and he did not apologize for pouring $6 million of his own money...