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...naturally occurring chemical found in pine trees--something else Finland has a lot of. Called sitostanol, the compound makes it harder for the body to absorb cholesterol. One of Raisio's scientists figured out how to extract sitostanol and mix it with conventional margarine. Then doctors from Helsinki tested the blend for a year on 153 subjects and reported in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine that the cholesterol counts of people who used sitostanol-laced margarine daily dropped from 235 mg/dL to 210 mg/dL...
Sprinter Frankie Fredericks of Namibia will be making a strong run for the title of "World's Fastest Human" at the Olympics. Last week in Helsinki he ran the third-fastest 100 m ever, in 9.87 sec., finishing ahead of world champion Donovan Bailey of Canada. Fredericks is also a contender in the 200, an event dominated by Michael Johnson. A few days earlier, Johnson won the 200 at the U.S. Olympic trials in 19.66 sec., breaking the 17-year-old world record...
...limitations for years, ever since he began vaulting at age 10 in the Ukrainian coal town of Lugansk, against the wishes of his father, a Soviet army sergeant. "It was a very hard time," he recalls. For nine years he persevered, unheralded, until the 1983 World championships in Helsinki. There he cleared 18 ft. 81/4 in. on his first try, a jump that won the gold and presaged dazzling things to come. So green was Bubka at the time that he failed to show up at the required press conference afterward; he had already taken the bus back...
Next month Western officials must certify that conditions can be met for free and fair Bosnian elections in mid-September. They patently can't, says the International Helsinki Federation. Even the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which will oversee the vote, concluded in a private "benchmark paper" that the minimal requirements set down in Dayton do not exist; there is no freedom of movement, no freedom of expression, no freedom of association. The blame for much of that lies directly with Karadzic, who has challenged or rejected every civilian provision of the Dayton pact...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: In a move to stay on top of an increasingly unstable political situation in Russia, Secretary of State Warren Christopher will meet Russian leaders next month, and again in March, in anticipation of a Clinton-Yeltsin summit in April. Christopher will fly to Helsinki on February 9 for talks with new foreign minister Yevgeny Primakov, a hardliner who recently replaced reformer Andrei Kozyrev. TIME's Bruce Nelan reports that a series of similar retrenchments on Yeltsin's part has "many people in Washington very worried about the course Yeltsin seems to be taking. Though some at State believe...