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...findings will now prompt further study to determine more precisely why there appears to be an association between sclerosis and heart disease fatalities. It will also prompt doctors to monitor patients with the condition more closely. The new findings, if borne out by further research, could add a potent new tool in the battle against heart disease...
...long-term goal, as in 50 or 100 years from now," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "But Beijing doesn?t want Taiwan making any moves either." The move itself may have been no more than local politics; Lee has a presidential election coming up, and independence is a potent issue at home. But trouble is trouble, and when Lee made similar noises in 1996 (for his previous election bid) the U.S. sent warships to the region after China shot a handful missiles into the ocean just off Taiwan?s shore. For now, the U.S. seems prepared...
Cape Town, in the south, remains the country's key tourist destination, visited by more than half of all foreign vacationers. Over the past two years, 30 new hotels have opened, doubling capacity. The city holds one of the most potent symbols of the new--and old--South Africa: a 30-minute cruise away from its Waterfront lies Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela spent most of his 27 years of imprisonment. It is now a museum and national monument. In the nearby hinterland, the Mediterranean-style wine lands provide travelers with more evidence of change: a growing number of wineries...
...didn't want to be perceived as victims; America as a whole had embraced West Germany as a cold war ally.) Our current concept of the term, he writes, began to emerge with the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann and became ingrained when American Jewish organizations found it a potent metaphor for their fears about Israel's survival following the Six-Day War in 1967 and the October...
...medicine is risk-free. A potent reminder of the fact came Wednesday when the Food and Drug Administration issued a restrictive public health advisory to the nation?s doctors concerning the popular antibiotic Trovan. The agency acted after receiving reports of 140 cases of liver damage among Trovan users since February 1998. Fourteen of the cases involved acute liver failure in which six patients died. The agency effectively pulled the prescription drug from general pharmacy shelves and instructed doctors to restricts its use to emergency situations in hospitals and nursing homes -- that is, in those instances where the need...