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Sachs is fully aware that his strong medicine is driving people into the & streets. Last week he called the Russian situation "politically very risky." But he says the slower approach that Yeltsin's critics advocate will only prolong the agony without providing the benefits of a market economy. Sachs notes that in cases like Bolivia and Chile, where shock policies have worked, it took about five years "to make the changes so widespread and visible that they became self-sustaining." But will the Russian people -- and their politicians -- have that much patience...
...knife edge, as I always thought it would be. Because to an extent I've been a hostage to the hostage situation. Whenever people have tried to make my case very public, to debate it very noisily, it has been suggested that to do so would be to prolong the hostages' plight. Now, since the hostages are out, I am able to speak more freely...
...with Anderson's sister Peggy Say and with the State Department and other groups in the U.S. and Britain. It was not always easy to know what was best. "Our dilemma was that if we made a big fuss about Terry, the argument could be made that it would prolong his ordeal by increasing his value in the eyes of his captors," David recalls. "On the other hand, if we didn't make a fuss, that would contribute to poor morale on the part of Terry and the other hostages...
...when it comes to extremely complex and costly medical procedures for very old patients. "Most of the elderly would probably accept that idea," says Dr. Perry Stafford, a surgeon at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland. "It is usually their families who have this tenacious hold on anything that will prolong life. It is hard for people to see that at some ) point, you are prolonging death, not life...
...readily available, easily ingested chemical has lured far more women into addiction than any other hard drug has. By the latest estimates, more than 1 million U.S. women use cocaine. Moreover, crack has spurred the use of other drugs. Women who take cocaine are likely to use heroin to prolong a high, then tranquilizers and alcohol to come down. They may indulge in marijuana, PCP and amphetamines. As a result, many crack babies steep in a stew of drugs while in the womb...