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...known as HDLs (for high-density lipoproteins), are considered "good" because, far from being killers, they may actually play a vital role in preventing heart disease. They seem to act like biological vacuum cleaners, sucking up excess cholesterol in the bloodstream. It is because the 50-odd Cincinnati families possess unusually high levels of HDL that they are believed to have such a resilient blood chemistry -- and such long lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Searching for Life's Elixir: HDL, the good cholesterol | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

...like the Soviet Union, possess a war economy, centered on a military-industrial complex, with a variety of inefficient producers protected by their cozy relations with the armed forces. Yet war as we understand it is becoming obsolete. Clearly, much of Gorbachev's foreign and domestic policies are designed to reform the Soviet economy into a more rational and competitive one. His challenge is also ours. The question we must ask ourselves is this: can America survive in the world after...

Author: By Charles N.W. Keckler, | Title: Blasting Into a New Age | 12/10/1988 | See Source »

TANYA Selvaratnam as Medea goes full throttle with the mental illness aspect of her character. From the very beginning of the play, Selvaratnam portrays Medea as having lost it full tilt. Thus, you lose sight of the rational motivations that her character might possess...

Author: By Esther H. Won, | Title: Diary of a Mad Housewife | 12/9/1988 | See Source »

Under the terms of the MGH-Squibb agreement,any patents developed will be owned by thehospital, but Squibb will possess exclusivelicensing rights to those patents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Major New MGH Center Will Study Neuroscience | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

Sure, the new type of clubs pad resumes and make "networking" easier in the dreaded Real World. But most of them exist because most students do possess altruism along with personal ambition. Public service groups involve about a quarter of Harvard's students, and the rest of the clubs give something to the rest of the college each year, whether it's a performance, an exhibition, a literary magazine or a greater understanding of one's fellow students...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: Recycle the Clubs | 10/22/1988 | See Source »

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