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...addition, opposition parties have arisen in a new power center, the northwestern Serb city of Banja Luka, which has long been a stronghold for critics of Karadzic's. While some determined Serbs cling to their outposts in Sarajevo, all leading participants in the power scramble seem likely to reject the fanatic nationalism of Karadzic and Mladic and to opt for at least temporary cooperation with the Implementation Force of NATO and its associates...
...immune system is barely functioning. And on top of that, in a desperate attempt four weeks ago to reverse the course of his disease, doctors at San Francisco General Hospital infused him with an experimental bone-marrow transplant from a baboon. Immunologists warned that his body would eventually reject the nonhuman tissue and that the operation would almost certainly end his life rather than prolong it. However, Getty is not only alive, but last week he was healthy enough to go home from the hospital. No matter how much time he has left, friends and family call him a medical...
...Drug and Cosmetic Act of 1938 and the food-additives amendment of 1958. According to those laws, olestra can be approved if it carries a "reasonable certainty of no harm" when used as intended. If olestra really makes people sick, as Jacobson and others assert, the agency might well reject it. But after much fretting over the precise definition of harm (and diarrhea as well), a majority of advisory-committee members decided that while the gastrointestinal and nutrient-blocking effects may be inconvenient and even unpleasant, they're almost certainly not harmful...
...industry. (The FDA counters that representatives from industry add important expertise to the committee, and that those with conflicts of interest are required to recuse themselves.) And he wants the FDA to stop cooperating with corporations to get all their petitions approved; instead, he says, the agency should simply reject poorly prepared applications out of hand...
...issues, the commission will not equivocate. It will reject a value-added tax, reasoning that such a tax would be hidden from the public and could thus be boosted easily as a way to fuel the growth of government. The commission will also urge the passage of a constitutional amendment that would require a two-thirds majority of Congress to raise tax rates. And it will recommend the elimination of the inheritance tax and the tax on dividend income...