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Wire services spread the word around the world, and the press laid siege to his office at Paris' Kremlin-Bicetre hospital, leaving Baulieu somewhat perplexed at the sudden interest. He stresses that the pill would not extend life but might, after further testing, enable people to "age well." Even that possibility remained in doubt, though. In the U.S. Baulieu's comments sparked skepticism at the National Institutes of Health and other medical centers...
...very impressive," Carswell said. "Pretty much across the board, we looked strong in every event. I can't say enough about how prepared everyone was for the meet. The performances that we laid down were just amazing...
...Paris. That triggered a tug-of-war between the Algerians, who were adamant that the plane stay in Algiers, and the French, who wanted it on their territory so they could deal with the situation directly. Things came to a head late on Dec. 25, when the terrorists laid down an ultimatum: if the boarding ramp was not pulled back and the plane was not allowed to take off before 9:30 p.m., they would kill a hostage every half hour. Their first victim, they said, would be Yannick Beugnet, a cook at the French ambassador's residence in Algiers...
Royds isn't rushing out with buy orders the way Ramos is, however. Her view is that Mexican stocks may be cheap but that at the moment there's no way to tell. The peso crisis has thrown all the best-laid economic forecasts out the window, so the educated guesses on next year's growth rate, inflation rate and interest rates have become wild guesses. So much is up in the air, in fact, that it's impossible to make predictions about corporate earnings, and as everybody knows, if earnings are a mystery, you can't possibly say whether...
With his troops in semi-retreat after an unsuccessful push to end the calamitousChechnya rebellion, Russian President Boris Yeltsin ordered an end to air strikes that had laid waste to wide areas of the separatist republic's capital, Grozny. It was unclear whether Yeltsin's order, announced as he sent more crack Russian units toward the city, was a prelude to peace talks or a lull before a fresh ground assault. Yeltsin is facing renewed political opposition to the unpopular war at home and abroad. In Moscow, Grigory Yavlinsky, a leading reform lawmaker, called for his resignation. European criticism became...