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...next CIA director is awaiting confirmation. Nothing in last week's action implicated Gates, but the scandal seems to be moving closer to him. "This indictment merely makes me a pawn in a continuing drama of political exploitation," complained George in an impromptu press conference at his suburban Maryland home. "My conscience is clear...
...known to affect high blood pressure. Racism may also play a role. But "there is so much excess hypertension in blacks that it's inconceivable to me that these factors alone are the ones that balance the equation upward," says Dr. Elijah Saunders, a cardiologist at the University of Maryland Medical System. Some researchers have even suggested that African Americans have inherited a greater sensitivity to salt. But any explanation along genetic lines will have to account for the fact that modern- day Africans do not appear to be particularly susceptible to high blood pressure...
When health department officials in rural Maryland learned from a Johns Hopkins survey that by the eighth grade, 61% of the boys and 47% of the girls ! at the local schools had had sexual intercourse, they approached the school board about providing condoms on demand. Given the speed at which the AIDS virus is spreading among teenagers -- the number of cases is still quite small, but it doubles every 14 months -- it was not surprising that the board seemed open to the proposal. But when it came time to decide, the condom measure lost by one vote...
...resigned, came after intense prodding by the Federal Reserve Board. The regulators have been seeking to restore public confidence in First American (assets: $11 billion), which has been plagued by troubled real estate loans in the Washington area. Last spring the Fed tapped former Republican Senator Charles Mathias of Maryland to head a committee of directors to oversee First American. While Clifford, 84, and law partner Altman, 44, retained their titles, investigators told TIME that the Mathias group gradually took over their duties. "It started to get nasty," said a federal investigator close to the power struggle...
...meeting at which some evidence favorable to dioxin was presented. Many of the participants did not realize that the conference had been underwritten in part with industry funds. "I agree that there is a lot of new science about dioxin," says Ellen Silbergeld, a toxicologist at the University of Maryland who attended the meeting. "But I don't agree over how that new knowledge should be applied...