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...study of 2,300 patients showed that giving a shot of magnesium sulfate within three hours of a heart attack may prolong a person's life by a few years. The timing is critical, however, as there was no beneficial effect in those cases where doctors waited eight hours or more to administer the drug...
...Will higher rates kill the recovery? On the contrary, says Greenspan, they will prolong it. Small increases now will prevent inflation without hurting what increasingly looks to be a sturdy economy. Holding off would allow inflation to blossom eventually and force much bigger interest-rate increases that really would stop growth. But others contend that low rates are the biggest reason why a disappointingly slow recovery has finally quickened into a promising advance. Raising borrowing costs now, they fear, will choke off the budding boom, in part by making purchases of such things as houses and cars harder to finance...
...under Slobodan Milosevic an the scores of independent partisans to take notice. Unlike the North Vietnamese, the Serbs have no huge superpower to back up the violence the perpetrate. Serbs, Croats and Muslims will only be moved by the feeling that the world stands against any side that might prolong the conflict...
...Experiments with mice indicate that sunscreens may not help prevent melanoma even though they protect against sunburn. By giving sunbathers a false sense of security, sunscreens may actually prolong exposure to damaging ultraviolet radiation...
...Despite the questions swirling around the merger, the new offer is enough to prolong the contentious five-month battle for control of Paramount and cast renewed uncertainty over its outcome. With his latest parry -- even if it turns out to be as ineffectual as Diller thinks it is -- Redstone has for the moment denied QVC's chairman the prize he so eagerly desires. Diller, Redstone and Paramount CEO Martin Davis have been locked in combat since September, when Viacom agreed to buy the movie studio for $8.2 billion in a friendly deal. Soon after that agreement, Diller launched...