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...direct use of both prostaglandins and substances that block PG formation looms as important medical therapy. PGS have been used to treat ulcers and circulatory disturbances and to soften the cervix and stimulate labor for births and abortions. Compounds that block PG formation have been used to relieve pain caused by gallstones and menstruation. In fact, the most common pain reliever of all, aspirin, produces its effect by blocking the synthesis of certain prostaglandins, a discovery made by Vane in 1971 that helped resolve the longstanding mystery of how aspirin works...
...grim backdrop of worrisome economic developments around the world led the U.S. to soften its initially tough stand and agree to speed up the timetable for reaching an accord on the amount each member should contribute. Also the U.S. launched a drive to set up a new "crisis fund" to be tapped in times of real emergency. Most key members seemed responsive to the proposal, which is, for now at least, still largely in the talking stage...
...Cabinet unanimously agreed that "on the basis of these proposals, Israel will not enter into any negotiations with any party whatsoever." U.S. officials expected that initial negative reaction; they hope that Arab interest in the plan as the basis for negotiations, and internal debate within Israel will eventually soften Begin's hard-line stand. There was little public comment from Arab leaders, most of whom will meet at a summit this week in the Moroccan city of Fez. The Arabs, who have formally designated the P.L.O. as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, can hardly endorse Reagan...
...seemed a chilling reminder that 1984 was less than two years away. In an effort worthy of Orwell's Ministry of Truth, experts from the Japanese Ministry of Education had set out to soften references in high school history textbooks to Japan's aggression before and during World War II. The Japanese invasion of China in 1937, for example, became a mere "advance." Passages describing the fall of Nanking seemed to suggest that Japanese atrocities had been provoked by stiff Chinese resistance, and the Korean national uprising against Japanese colonial rule in 1919 was "mob violence...
...spirit of commerce has a tendency to soften the manners of men, and to extinguish those inflammable humours which have so often kindled into...