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...hard-liners and Communists that dominate the lower house, unhappy with Yeltsin?s presidency and loath to impose new taxes on Russians who already wait months for their paychecks, can?t be counted on to hurry on their president?s behalf. Meanwhile, Yeltsin, who has been courting French and German leaders for additional financial assistance, is facing a new and potentially crushing round of bond payments that are coming due in July. As Russia?s Central Bank spends mightily to support the ruble and court foreign investors, Yeltsin?s best argument with the IMF may be his country's sincere...
Bradfield's doctor put her in touch with UCLA's Slamon, who was testing a brand-new antibody that targeted the HER-2/neu protein. Although Slamon was using the antibody in combination with chemotherapy--and Bradfield was loath to go back to chemo--the combined therapy proved miraculous in her case. Sixteen small tumors in her lungs melted away. By 1993 she was in remission, and still is. "I got to be at my son's wedding," she exults. "The gift is that I'm here...
Although I would like nothing better than to let the baseball debate die, I am loath to let Khentov ("Further Baseball Debate") have the final word. Khentov, I believe, is a comedian. He has passed off his own invention as a rebuttal to Lev Polinsky's article...
...They threatened to execute him, armed him with an AK-47 assault rifle and turned him into a pitiless killing machine aimed at his family, friends and neighbors on the government side of Mozambique's civil war. "They told me I must fight in order to eat," he stutters, loath to recall those years. "I killed people. I saw their faces when I hurt them." He cannot look a questioner in the eyes. "Now," says this boy-man who subsists by cutting bamboo, "life is good, because I don't have the heavy heart of a fighter...
...guardians of unclaimed frozen embryos because couples lose contact with the lab either by choice or by not supplying forwarding addresses. Clinics must then decide whether to destroy the embryos after a certain period of time or keep them frozen indefinitely. Without a specific, notarized directive, IVF clinics are loath to destroy these "orphan" embryos. And although they can be long frozen, as your story indicated, they are certainly not "lost." DAVID HILL, IVF Laboratory Director Center for Reproductive Medicine Century City Hospital Los Angeles