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...matter what the numbers show, the voices that count belong to everyday citizens hardened to the reality of city life. Do they feel safer? Brenda Clark, 45, still complains about the nightly crackle of gunfire outside her South Bronx home. Anna McClendon, 71, distrusts police efforts to enlist civilians in identifying criminals. Says she: "You're liable to get yourself killed." That may be true, but on paper, anyway, the streets aren't as mean as they used...
...surprised to hear some experts talk of the U.S.'s avoiding Beijing's suspicion while it also thinks it can "improve China's values." On the other hand, China needs to grow up, probably as much as it wants to grow to be a respected power. A better and safer world cannot be built with an adolescent China asking to be rewarded for each effort made at the expense of 21 million Taiwanese. Li Hanyu Strombeek, Belgium...
President Clinton's re-election campaignhas launched a $2.4 million series of television ads designed to portray the President as tough on crime. The slickly produced spots feature police officers praising the ban on assault weapons: "President Clinton is helping us make this a safer nation." Why so early?TIME White House correspondent James Carneysays: "There are two ways to look at this. One is that it's an absurd amount of money to be spending on political ads sixteen months before the election. But Clinton isn't facing any primary challenge, and he's raised $8 million already...
Nachtigall is a fervent believer in the healing power of estrogen. "Even for women who are already in deep sexual difficulty, the therapy usually reverses the damage in only a few weeks," she writes. Estrogen creams, applied topically, are very effective at rejuvenating vaginal tissues and are probably safer than pills or patches because they put less hormone into circulation. For those whose sex drive remains stuck in low gear despite hrt, the male hormone testosterone may help, though unless dosages are watched carefully, it can cause deepening voice, growth of facial hair and other unwanted effects...
...winning a vote of confidence scheduled for July 1. If it works, he can head off a crisis in which he would either have todismiss his entire cabinet or disband parliament. "Yeltsin doesn't much care for these guys anyway," says McAllister. "And dismissing them may be a safer route than disbanding the parliament, since he doesn't have any idea how elections would turn out on such short notice...