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...safe for the elderly become dangerous if they are used at high doses or for long periods of time. "Plenty of existing drugs that are not on the list can cause all kinds of problems," says Dr. Judith Ahronheim, who specializes in treating older patients at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. In addition, she says, "there are many other newer drugs that might be potentially harmful for older people...
James is right that the Hall of Fame, like the Miss America Pageant or the Mount Rushmore sculptures, was essentially a Chamber of Commerce inspiration to lure tourists. But when the Hall opened in 1939, it became a secular shrine, the Lourdes of baseball. It still is. The place evokes a simpler time of grace and grit and innocence, when players didn't seem so greedy or owners so stupid and when both sides apparently realized that the franchise they held was on loan from the fans who had invested so much of themselves in it. This vision is partly...
...Clinton plan started heading toward compromise in Congress, the church dealt the process a sharp blow. Noting that three of the health-care plans emerging from committees listed abortion as part of a standard-benefits package, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops sadly but unanimously vowed to mount a grass-roots campaign against the final product if it followed suit. That announcement bred others: 72 members of Congress said they would have difficulty voting for any bill that doesn't include abortion as a benefit. Thirty-five others responded by making public a threat to oppose any bill that does...
...Bahamas 200 miles north of Port-au-Prince and by soldiers of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The Pentagon also announced the arrival on station of a new command ship for the 14-vessel flotilla standing ready near Haiti: the U.S.S. Mount Whitney. Crammed with communications gear and sprouting a forest of antennae, it is one of two U.S. ships designed specifically to serve as a floating headquarters for an amphibious invasion...
...given the Korean name Jong Il. He was also called Yura, which is Russian. After all, he was born in Khabarovsk, in the Soviet Far East. North Korean mythographers prefer to obscure that unpatriotic nativity, claiming that their Dear Leader first saw light on sacred Mount Paektu -- the site, according to legend, where Korean civilization sprang into existence 5,500 years ago. Such official obfuscations have ensured that Kim Jong Il remains mostly myth himself, even as he succeeds his father and becomes the leader of one of the world's most dangerous regimes...