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...DOLLAR COLLAPSED against the German mark and the Japanese yen last week, Sara McBain saw the impact for herself in a supermarket in Tokyo. The housewife, visiting from Chicago, stared in disbelief at cranberry juice that cost nearly $7 a quart at the going exchange rate, some four times as much as a similar bottle would sell for back home. A large box of Cheerios cost more than $12. But it was the meat counter, she says, that "really threw me for a loop." There she discovered roast beef for about $16 a quarter-pound. That made McBain wonder whether...
...know, like dollars or yen. Except this is a new currency...
...oversight, because it is a district and not part of any state; a federal takeover has been floated because of the fiscal mess. The local news, meanwhile, is having a global impact: Masahiri Ymaguchi, a top Tokyo banker, told the Associated Press that the dollar fell against the Japanese yen today because of Washington's problems. TIME Washington correspondent Ann Blackman reports that Congress will probably set up an independent financial review board to oversee city spending. She says Barry planted the seeds for the crisis years ago by building a huge bureaucracy, with more full-time employees per capita...
Results of Yen's most recent trial, which involved giving elderly people small doses of DHEA daily, were published last June in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. They showed improved well-being, which Yen defines as "the ability to cope," increased mobility, less joint discomfort and sounder sleep. In the November issue of the same journal, Baulieu reported tests on 57 subjects showing that "DHEAS is a good individual marker" of age. As people age, he says, "everybody's level diminishes. But somebody who has a lot of DHEAS to start with will maintain a fairly high count, while...
...Yen is currently giving DHEA to another group of older patients to determine whether it will halt or reverse the natural decline in their strength and muscle mass. Meanwhile, Baulieu plans to analyze blood samples from 600 elderly people, trying to correlate DHEAS levels and general health. And he hopes soon to begin testing small doses of the hormone on as many as 200 volunteers, measuring any changes in memory, behavior, skin and muscle tone, cholesterol levels, cardiac activity and joint pain...