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...despite lack of information about its long-term safety or efficacy. While the panel concedes that being short is not a medical disorder, it can make some things harder to do, like driving a car, and cause psychological problems. "There is heightism in our society," says panel member Dr. Melvin Grumbach of the University of California at San Francisco. NIH estimates that 100,000 U.S. children could receive HGH if it proves effective...
...triangle in CANDIDA, where the title character chooses the "weaker" of two men -- not the lonely boy inured to pain but the proud public man, used to cosseting. Candida's fail-safe feminist speech enlivens the otherwise kittenish and cloying Broadway debut of Mary Steenburgen, an Oscar winner for Melvin and Howard. But the real joy is watching fellow film star Robert Sean Leonard (Dead Poets Society, Swing Kids) as her coltish adolescent admirer. He brings quiet reality to the most extravagant talk and gawkily comic gestures and makes one think the play should be called, after him, Marchbanks...
...shift prompted Congressional Black Caucus chairman Edolphus Towns to declare this an "unprecedented moment in American history." In fact, a number of Southern states will send black members to the House for the first time since the turn of the century. Among the new faces: North Carolina Democrat Melvin Watt, a civil rights attorney, and Alcee Hastings, a Florida Democrat who managed to overcome the glaring taint of a 1989 House impeachment suffered during his tenure as a federal judge. To the north, one of the most talked- about new faces to join the House belongs to Illinois Democrat Bobby...
NORTH CAROLINA / Melvin Watt...
...been reduced to 135, but that was not the issue last week. At hearings of the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs, its chairman, Democratic Senator John Kerry, wanted to know whether the Nixon Administration had pulled out in full knowledge that U.S. servicemen were still being held prisoner. Melvin Laird and James Schlesinger, who both served as Secretary of Defense during 1973, said they thought...