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...Richard Holbrooke last week. "A full-scale Serbian offensive against the KLA will force NATO to take action against the Serbs," says TIME correspondent Douglas Waller, who last week accompanied Holbrooke on a futile peace mission in the region. "Although the Serbs could easily squash the KLA, that would trigger a bloody civil war throughout the region" -- a war NATO fears would destabilize the region and create a massive refugee problem...
...modernized its economy, built a thriving democracy, opened up a free press. It is one of the world's leading trading nations and one of the most prosperous. And yet, by succeeding, Taiwan has become a problem for Washington. Taipei's dynamic de facto independence may one day trigger a Chinese ultimatum: blockade or attack. It will then be up to the U.S. to decide whether Taiwan's status quo has a future...
...Hismanal (an allergy drug) and Nizoral (an anti-fungal medication) in that bag? Together they can trigger fatal cardiac spasms. Taking a little Viagra to boost your love life? Make sure you're not also on nitroglycerin for angina. In the past two months, that combination has killed four men, including one who, the Food and Drug Administration revealed last week, complained of chest pains after having sex and was given nitroglycerin in the ambulance. Now the FDA is trying to figure out if other drugs, like the prostate medication Hytrin, don't mix with Viagra...
Nonprescription drugs can cause problems too. Antacids, for example, can neutralize certain antibiotics called fluoroquinolones. High doses of vitamin E (over 400 IU) can trigger serious internal bleeding when taken with a blood-thinning agent like Coumadin. Even eating can be tricky. Grapefruit juice intensifies the effects of some high-blood-pressure medications (calcium channel blockers) while aged cheeses, wine and chocolate can turn antidepressants (MAO inhibitors) into poisons. And those are just some of the thousands of cross-reactions that pharmacists know about. New contraindications are added to the list all the time...
...cream and whole milk are packed with saturated fat, which clogs arteries and can lead to heart attacks. That's why most nutritionists advise switching to low-fat or skim milk and eating more yogurt and cottage cheese than Haagen-Dazs and Brie. Even skim milk, though, can trigger allergies in some people, including infants, who in any case will get more iron and other key nutrients from breast milk or formula...