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According to a study published last week in Science, a solution extracted in part from chicken bones appears to halt the progression of the disease by "teaching" the body's immune system to stop the inflammatory responses which characterize rheumatoid arthritis...
...third in the polls, behind both George Bush and Ross Perot, and the Democrat's aides hoped the book would help jump-start his campaign. But on June 22, as the plates of Clinton's book were literally going on the presses, Little Rock, Arkansas, headquarters called for a halt. One line in a single chart just didn't make sense. The problem was with the health-care numbers...
Even when he presided over a superpower, Gorbachev talked like someone with a heart of green. At the United Nations in 1988, he called for a halt to humanity's "aggressions against nature." Today, freed from the constraints of government, he sometimes sounds more like a granola-crunching backpacker from California than a former communist who rose through the ranks of apparatchiks in one of the most environmentally irresponsible nations of our time. Gorbachev may be the only world leader to use the word noosphere (a term that refers to human consciousness as it relates to the biosphere...
...number of the White House's nominees for important posts were approved by Senate committees, putting a halt to the seemingly endless stream of controversy over nominations that the Administration has endured. The Judiciary Committee voted 18 to 0 in favor of confirming Ruth Bader Ginsburg as a Justice of the Supreme Court. The Labor and Human Resources Committee gave a 13-to-4 endorsement to Dr. Joycelyn Elders to be Surgeon General. Louis Freeh, the nominee for fbi director, seems headed for quick approval this week...
...bruised. Apple, which surprised Wall Street a week ago by reporting a larger than expected quarterly deficit of $188.3 million, has been losing its edge to software systems like Microsoft's Windows, which endow practically any PC with easy-to-use, Mac-like features. In a desperate bid to halt defections, Apple this month cut prices on 23 models of computers as much...