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...HMOS TAKE THEIR CUE FROM industry and replace those annoying doctors with robots? Then their nonmedical bureaucrats can make the diagnosis and decide on the treatment. And the HMOs could get on with their primary purpose--making money. MARCIA EVE KELLEY Richmond, Virginia
...that's nothing compared with what The Melatonin Miracle promises. Its authors, Dr. Walter Pierpaoli of the Biancalana-Masera Foundation for the Aged in Ancona, Italy, and Dr. William Regelson of the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond, have taken the fact that the body produces less melatonin as it grows older to make extravagant claims about its antiaging properties. They write that ingesting small amounts of melatonin will allow people to turn back the clock and live 120 years or more. Their evidence? An experiment in which Pierpaoli transplanted the pineal glands of old mice into young ones...
...victims of that southern culture which took its institutional form in the Confederacy. My ancestors were freed as a result of the Emancipation Proclamation and the efforts of the Union Army, and we have never forgotten that. My grandmother was born in 1863, the year of the Emancipation, in Richmond, Virginia: when she came north to join her northern relative who had long been free she always referred to the Civil War as the "War of the Rebellion;" and she bore no sentimental brief for Robert E. Lee or for his kind. Eventually she settled here in Cambridge with...
Steven Jobs, the co-founder and later ousted chairman of Apple Computer, stands to rake in a windfall of more than $1 billion as his latest venture, Pixar Animation Studios, issues a public offering of stock. Pixar, a tiny computer company based in Richmond, California, created the current blockbuster movie Toy Story. Jobs bought the company for $10 million...
...care if the police go over my wall and search without a warrant?' I think we've got a job to do in terms of convincing people that we really are all winners when that system is respected." Peter Barnett of Forensic Science Associates, a DNA lab in Richmond, California, acknowledges the nightmare created by attacks on incautious handling of blood specimens. "People in the profession now recognize the necessity of increasing their own professional standing and activities," he says...