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MEDICINE: A Weapon Against Multiple Sclerosis...
...patients suffered 50% fewer serious attacks of the disease, and those attacks were of shorter duration. Moreover, brain scans revealed that this group of patients incurred fewer central nervous system lesions, suggesting that the therapy may be more than purely palliative. It may in fact be the first effective weapon to slow the progress of the disease, which afflicts as many as 350,000 Americans...
...Hawaii, Louisiana and Minnesota have all adopted stronger gun-control legislation recently. Later this year Congress is expected to pass the so-called Brady bill, which requires a five- day waiting period for purchasing handguns. President Clinton has declared support for a federal law limiting the sale of assault weapons. He recently told a New Jersey audience that protecting the right to bear arms for sport or self-defense does not mean "that everybody in America needs to be able to buy a semiautomatic or an automatic weapon built only for the purpose of killing people...
...suspects were arrested and both were charged with assault with intent to murder and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. The suspects were a male juvenile from Cambridge and Michael Kedersen of Newtown Court in Cambridge, police said. They were stopped after a brief foot chase...
...people gathering in front of the clinic. Instead, he made his way to a small parking lot behind the building. After Gunn drove up, parked and walked slowly away from his car, Griffin shot him three times in the back with a .38-cal. pistol. He then dropped his weapon, approached a police officer and said, "I just shot someone, and he's laying behind the building." Gunn died roughly two hours later...