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Roosevelt's optimism about medical research seems, in retrospect, amazing. Doctors could not prevent or treat the poliovirus infection that had paralyzed him nearly twenty years earlier. John Franklin Enders and vaccines were still in the future; the main therapies were iron lungs and warm baths. Most of the staples of modern medicine were also still unknown. Antibiotics. Hormone replacements. Effective drug therapies for psychotic illnesses. Pre-natal testing. Coronary bypass surgery and artifical joints. Also in the future were medications that could have lowered FDR's blood pressure and perhaps forestalled the stroke that killed him less than five...
...Russia's epochal presidential campaign comes down to the voters, Yeltsin has managed to turn a contest on the fate of democratic reform into a two-man race with his main challenger, Communist Party leader Gennadi Zyuganov. After weeks of extraordinary, exuberant stumping and an unprecedented media blitz, Yeltsin the populist politician has been reborn, while some of the gas has gone out of the stolid Zyuganov's gloom-and-doom campaign. With nine other candidates in the race, neither of the front runners is expected to win outright--50% plus one--in the first round, but there is little...
Nothing has been more decisive in resurrecting communism as the main political force in Russia than the West's incapacity to allow Russians to keep their national pride. Efforts to expand nato membership eastward, minimizing Russia's voice in world affairs and backing Yeltsin on every issue, are slowly paving the road for Zyuganov's victory. He will appeal to his countrymen's self-esteem and empty pockets, and to what remains of the Soviet totalitarian regime. Who would have thought that the U.S. policy toward communism would fail this way? JUAN CARLOS VELTEN Mexico City...
...main federal student-loan program, created in 1965, is interest-free while the student is in college. Because of the run-up in the cost of public higher education, loan demand was rising so rapidly that the program was in danger of becoming ruinously expensive. So Congress started a second student-loan program, in which the recipients pay interest even during their school years. This program, rolled out in 1992, now has 2 million borrowers and a loan volume of $7.6 billion. The effect has been that of a one-two punch: as tuitions and fees have risen...
...root, it is this role that soon-to-be-ex-Senator Bob Dole most aspires to play: the self-effacing, quietly powerful small-town man from Main Street who outwits the cosmopolitan, slick-talking snob from the fleshpots. And why not? There is, after all, no more enduring American icon...