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...Howard Fillit, a geriatrician at New York City's Mount Sinai Medical Center, has conducted small-scale tests of estrogen with women who have mild to moderate Alzheimer's. Patients who did not know the month or year could recall them after just three weeks on daily doses of hormones. The women became more alert, ate and slept better, and showed improved social behavior. Fillit believes testosterone therapy may prove equally useful for male patients. Estrogen is not yet an approved therapy for Alzheimer's, but as the evidence builds, it is fast becoming one of the brightest hopes...
...accelerating rate of jury attrition has raised the specter of a mistrial. It is unlikely that Simpson can afford to mount such an elaborate defense again (though a celebrity client will never lack for glory-seeking legal help), and that may well affect the outcome. For the Simpson case has demonstrated perhaps more starkly than ever before that in the American justice system, as in so much else in this country, money changes everything -- and huge amounts of money change things almost beyond recognition...
...first French reinforcements landed in Bosnia last week. A flight of helicopters lifted 60 Foreign Legionnaires and six heavy mortars off warships in the Adriatic and set them down in a heavily wooded area on Mount Igman, a strategic height overlooking Sarajevo. The platoon quickly moved into position to support a French infantry battalion that had been under attack by Bosnian Serbs...
...French soldiers were a symbolic down payment on the 10,000 troops who will form a rapid-reaction force to back up the 22,500 U.N. peacekeepers already in the country. The landing on Mount Igman also seemed to lend support to the Bosnia U.N. military command's tentative plan to open a supply route from besieged Sarajevo to the sea at Split...
...could have been horrific. To triumph in that war, the cult built a series of munitions factories within its complex at the foot of Mount Fuji. Aum researchers were trying to develop germ weapons -- including the Ebola virus -- and an assembly line was about to produce automatic rifles. Behind one building's false walls was a $700,000 lab able to turn out 60 to 80 kg a month of the nerve gas sarin -- enough to kill 6 million to 8 million people. One plan called for releasing the sarin over Tokyo from 1.65-m-long remote-controlled helicopters. Asahara...