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Creatine, which became popular among professional and Olympic athletes in the early 1990s, is still a new supplement. While it has not shown any short-term side effects other than muscle pulls, there has not been enough time to determine if creatine causes any problems in the long run. Although the NCAA has not put creatine on its list of banned drugs, the Harvard athletic department does not promote the use of creatine or other nutritional ergogenic aids (performance-enhancing substances...
...Creatine really does help and it is legal, butit also causes some problems, and a lot of guyswere complaining about hamstring pulls at thebeginning of the season." he says, adding that heis not worried about long-term effects. "Strengthand conditioning is a really important part offootball. That was one of the things coach Murphyreally focused on when he got here [in 1994] and Ithink that is a big reason why we have beenwinning so many games the past couple of years...
Moscow's media corps scrambled for its medical dictionaries Tuesday, in search of the meaning of "asthenic." That was the term chosen by the Kremlin to describe Boris Yeltsin's condition, in explaining why he's canceled all travel plans and checked in to a sanatorium for two weeks. He's already taken 47 vacation days this year...
...Kremlin is reaching hard for medical terms that nobody quite understands to tell us that Yeltsin is tired and perhaps depressed," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "But as long as he's still breathing, much of the political establishment wants to keep him in office because they're not yet ready to fight elections." And, of course, the ailing president has his own reasons for hanging on: "Yeltsin needs legal immunity for himself and his family and he wants a nice retirement package," says Meier. So expect 18 more months of an increasingly withdrawn president becoming marginal...
...long-term implication of Quantum's restructuring may be the dimming of the billionaire financier's aura: "Soros was viewed with awe because he appeared to have the Midas touch," says Baumohl. "Now he seems distinctly mortal...