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Homeopathy's newfound success dismays many physicians, scientists and consumer advocates who regard the potions as ineffective at best and dangerous at worst--especially if they keep patients from seeking established treatments for serious ailments. "Anybody who understands science would regard them as worthless," declares retired psychiatrist Stephen Barrett of Allentown, Pennsylvania, a board member of the National Council Against Health Fraud...
...Disclosing the biological weapons arsenal is significant, but it may not be enough," says Defense correspondent Mark Thompson ofSaddam Hussein's newfound honesty.Now that the Iraqi leader has admitted to U.N. officials that he harbored agerm warfare programthroughout the Gulf War, Thompson says, "we know he doesn't have any weapons of mass destruction, but he still uses AK-47s on the Kurds in the north and the Shiites in the south." International attention, he adds, is now focused squarely on whether the U.S. will permit lifting crippling economic sanctions against Iraq...
What especially worries those familiar with the newfound ailment is that doctors may fail to recognize it and so may not treat it properly. Unlike Lyme disease, which usually begins with a bull's-eye rash around the site of the tick bite, HGE has no telltale warning signs. Nor is there a definitive test for the disease. Doctors must base their diagnosis on such circumstantial evidence as abnormal spots on white blood cells and a low level of white cells or platelets in the blood. Furthermore, the drug most commonly used for Lyme disease -- amoxicillin -- is useless against...
...mournful, cathartic lyrics. The genre-challenging Tricky draws freely and creatively from soul and hip-hop, with a dash of alternative-rock abrasiveness. And vocalist Terence Trent D'Arby, who burst onto the scene in 1987, is back with a new CD, Vibrator, that tempers his arty brashness with newfound maturity...
...National Rifle Association may have newfound strength [THE N.R.A, May 29], but its membership roster will not include me. I was just as offended as former President Bush by the organization. The egregious fund-raising letter from N.R.A. executive vice president Wayne LaPierre is as chilling to the sense of the Second Amendment as it is to the lives of law-enforcement personnel throughout the nation. For an N.R.A. official to call officers "jackbooted government thugs" is repugnant. My resignation means one less member whose dues will be available for use by such unprincipled people as LaPierre. RICHARD L. JUDD...