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...lawyer representing the Harvard Alumni Architectural Review Committee (HAARC) asked a judge in the Middlesex Superior Court yesterday for a preliminary injunction continuing the current halt of all construction on the Harvard Union...
...GROWTH OF PROSTATE-CANCER cells is stimulated by the male hormone testosterone, and to halt and possibly reverse the progress of Milken's malignancy, his doctors prescribed a hormone treatment that shuts down production of testosterone. "I began taking two pills three times a day," says Milken, and got a time-release shot once a month." The results were dramatic. His PSA level dropped from 24 to 15, then to 10, 5 and 3, and by August, when he began undergoing supplementary radiation therapy, it stood at zero. The computer scans were also encouraging; they showed that his swollen lymph...
...next moment as youthfully impulsive as the Harrow schoolboy he once was. He spent one typical morning gravely conferring on affairs of state in his palace office, then suddenly ordered his private de Havilland plane made ready, zipped out to the airport in his Lincoln, screeched to a halt, jumped out and asked a saluting R.A.F. officer, 'O.K. if I go to Jerusalem?'...Privately he admits that Israel is probably there to stay." --April...
...people that are going mad. Livelihoods are being threatened by gossip." On Monday, the British Parliament decided that no new action need be taken to curb the spread of the disease. The decision contradicted media predictions that the government would order the slaughter of the entire British herd to halt the spread of a bovine brain sickness that could potentially kill people who consume the diseased beef. TIME's Barry Hillenbrand reports that economists project that slaughtering the British cow herd would reduce the GDP by as much as 0.5 percent. "Economically, slaughtering the entire herd would be a disaster...
...boil at a furious rate. Following lengthy debate over the weekend, the British Parliament decided that no new action need be taken to curb the spread of "mad cow disease." The decision contradicted media predictions that the government would order the slaughter of the entire British herd to halt the spread of a bovine brain sickness that could potentially kill people who consume the diseased beef. "The government is muddling through this," says TIME's Barry Hillenbrand. "They don't know which way to turn." Hillenbrand reports that economists project that slaughtering the British cow herd wouldreduce...