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After the Crimson offense scored three points in its last two games, Restic had seen enough. Lazarre-White had been knocked around enough. The O had stalled enough. Re-enter Priore after a six-week sideline stay...
...Last week he began a six-week, 13-country swing to persuade the rest of the world not to reward President F.W. de Klerk too early for easing up on apartheid. And when he arrives in the U.S. this week, he will be forced into still another exhausting role: heroic superstar. One of the most honored and respected men alive, Mandela is in the spotlight everywhere he goes. But in the U.S., where media fire storms are an art form, the visit-as-event will reach its highest stage. He will be besieged by cameras and jostling admirers, beseeched...
Nelson Mandela aroused concern for his health a few days after embarking on a six-week, 13-nation tour when he postponed a meeting with the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva. Although the 71-year-old activist had recently undergone surgery to remove a bladder cyst, A.N.C. officials insisted that he was in good health, while acknowledging that his schedule was "tight...
...reduce cholesterol levels. In fact, it works no better than low-fiber grains and causes more bloating and diarrhea than some. In a study performed at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Dr. Frank Sacks and colleagues randomly switched 20 healthy men and women between two six-week diets: one contained 100 grams of oat bran daily, the other 100 grams of low-fiber wheat. Cholesterol levels dropped an average 7.5% -- no matter the diet. The simple explanation: both grains work indirectly by displacing other items in the diet. People who fill up on oat bran or wheat...
...political system rigidly in the Stalinist mold. Inspired by their increased exposure to the outside world in general and by the example of Gorbachev's democratization in particular, the people of China appealed to their leadership for more political freedom. A demonstration by several thousand students escalated into a six-week occupation of the central square in Beijing by crowds of up to 1 million people. When the tanks rolled in on June 4, reformers in Poland suddenly had a new code word for the catastrophe they feared might still befall them: Tiananmen...