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...same forms of political harassment and unnecessary investigations that characterized the bureau's activities in the sixties have re-appeared. This month a New York group of lawyers known as the Center for Constitutional Rights obtained FBI files under the Freedom of Information Act--files that document an exhaustive six-year surveillance of hundreds of organizations. All of these political groups had expressed opposition to the Reagan administration's Central American policies. None of them were ever found to be involved in anything illegal...
...million, six-year U.S. study, conducted by Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, covered 22,071 male physicians, ages 40 to 84, with no ) history of prior heart disease or stroke, for an average of 4.8 years. Half the group took a 325-mg tablet of aspirin every other day, the lowest dose the researchers considered both safe and effective; the other half received a placebo. This past December a board of medical experts monitoring the study decided that the results were "sufficiently compelling," as Yale Cardiologist Lawrence Cohen put it, to interrupt the study...
Results from the British trial were less conclusive. In a six-year study of 5,139 physicians, half took 500 mg of aspirin every day. Oxford University researchers found no reduction in heart attacks. They did see, however, a small but troubling excess of strokes. "Some things are clear," says Sir Richard Doll, who led the investigation. "For anybody who has had a heart attack in the past, it is beneficial to take a small dose of aspirin daily. That's unanimous. The dispute is over what healthy people should...
...Blues: The loss to the Terriers also marked the longest dry spell (seven years) the Crimson has ever had in capturing a Beanpot title, surpassing the six-year drought from...
Clark's brand of discipline is often harsh. On a single day in his first year, he threw out 300 students for being tardy or absent and, he said, for disrupting the school. "Leeches and parasites," he calls such pupils. Over the next five years he tossed out hundreds more. Faculty members hostile to $ his vision were dismissed or strongly encouraged to leave. During his six-year tenure some 100 have departed, including a basketball coach who was hustled out by security guards for failing to stand at attention during the singing of the school alma mater. "I expurgated them...