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...relieving pain: about 70% of patients improved with either therapy. In 1971, chymopapain was approved for use in Canada, Britain and Australia. But a study of almost 100 patients in the U.S. showed that placebo injections were just as effective as chymopapain. That controversial experiment led the FDA to withhold approval in 1974, and U.S. patients began visiting Canada. A new series of trials, begun in 1979, led to the final FDA approval...
...same time, he has been careful to dissociate himself from some of the more extreme activities of right-to-life groups. He recently crossed a pro-life picket line to attend a fund-raising event sponsored by the United Way. He later explained that Catholics should not withhold funds from all United Way charities just because some of them oppose the church's teaching on abortion. Says Dan Daley, a Catholic activist who heads the lay group Chicago Call to Action: "He is building up a reservoir of trust, faith and good will so he will have a solid...
...writing of ants; another tells of an animal's efforts to understand the motives of a lab technician who puts it into a maze ("The alien's cruelty is refined, yet irrational," the animal observes. "If it intended all along to starve me, why not simply withhold the food?"). The wittiest story examines the subject of time and deals with humanity's persistent demand: Why is there never enough? One answer has a logic that Pythagoras would have admired: like air from a tire, the stuff is actually escaping through a tiny hole in the universe...
...there is concern that what could be gained in terms of clearly establishing the council's jurisdiction over its funds may not outweigh the risk of irking the Faculty, which could withhold funds collected in future years...
PRINCETON, N.J.--A New Jersey court, of appeals recently upheld a lower court's ruling that supported Princeton University's decision to withhold the diploma of a student found guilty of plagiarism...