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...talk about peaceful solutions, it is not clear what kind of compromise can be negotiated. Last week Chechnya's president Jokhar Dudayev, decked out in camouflage fatigues, held a press conference on the southern outskirts of Grozny to call for a halt to the fighting. There was no military solution to the crisis, he said, and peace could be agreed on "in a day, in an hour, at the stroke of a pen." But Dudayev, a former Soviet air force general, waffled when asked if he would drop his demand for independence and settle for autonomy inside the Russian Federation...
...currently giving DHEA to another group of older patients to determine whether it will halt or reverse the natural decline in their strength and muscle mass. Meanwhile, Baulieu plans to analyze blood samples from 600 elderly people, trying to correlate DHEAS levels and general health. And he hopes soon to begin testing small doses of the hormone on as many as 200 volunteers, measuring any changes in memory, behavior, skin and muscle tone, cholesterol levels, cardiac activity and joint pain...
...those effects was cited at the National Institute on Aging, where chief of biology Dr. Anna McCormick is not sanguine about DHEA's potential. She notes that one human trial -- to determine the effects of DHEA on appetite -- was brought to a sudden halt when levels of testosterone increased and female subjects began to assume masculine characteristics...
...factory is living off day-to-day, shift-to-shift inventories," says TIME Detroit bureau chief William McWhirter. "One walkout can shut down everyone else." Negotiations between the two sides continued today. The United Auto Workers union predicts that if the walkout continues, dozens of GM factories nationwide will halt production within the week...
Larry Rowe, an attorney who represents the Harvard capital group in its dealings with J.C. Nicholas, also confirmed that Nichols has dismissed, the group from its action to halt the hostile takeover...