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...cruel sequel to years of political repression, hundreds of youngsters in hospitals and orphanages have become infected. An antiseizure drug may do more harm than good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page: Feb 19. 1990 | 2/19/1990 | See Source »

...prevent additional seizures and satisfy worried parents, physicians often prescribe phenobarbital. But according to a report in last week's New England Journal of Medicine, the drug may do more harm than good. In a study of 217 children from eight months to three years of age who had had at least one seizure, researchers at the University of Washington and the National Institutes of Health found that children who took phenobarbital daily for up to two years had significantly lower IQ scores than those who were given a placebo. Some difference was still apparent several months after they stopped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Worse Than The Disease: Phenobartitol | 2/19/1990 | See Source »

...Soviet Jews in the occupied West Bank. In Moscow First Deputy Foreign Minister Yuli Vorontsov told Israel's consular representative, "We oppose any use of citizens leaving the Soviet Union to push Palestinians off land belonging to them." Israel's actions, he said, "are likely to cause serious harm to peace in the Middle East." Another Deputy Foreign Minister, Gennadi Tarasov, flew to Tunis to reiterate those views to the Palestine Liberation Organization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East Exodus to the Promised Land | 2/12/1990 | See Source »

EMORY'S Policy Statement on Discriminatory Harassment aims its restrictions at "objectionable epithets, demeaning depictions or treatment, and threatened or actual abuse or harm," as well as sexual harassment, which it defines at length. Chester E. Finn, a former assistant secretary of education, and James Taranto of the Heritage Foundation are very upset by the restrictions at Emory and other colleges...

Author: By Daniel E. Mufson, | Title: Free Speech Stops at Harrassment | 2/7/1990 | See Source »

...that the picture is brightening statistically after a decade of gloom, many research scientists and health-policy analysts question whether the changes wrought by AIDS activists harm basic research, the public health and perhaps even those who are at risk of acquiring the virus. Says Joel Hay, a health economist and senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution: "Things are out of whack." Three areas merit special concern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The AIDS Political Machine | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

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