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...doctors say such preliminary results do not justify indiscriminate use of HGH. Already the hormone has begun to appear on the black market. As sports officials have cracked down on steroids, some athletes have resorted to injecting HGH in a foolhardy effort to build themselves up. Unlike steroid abuse, HGH use cannot be picked up in routine drug tests. Experts warn, however, that the hormone injections may be dangerous. Researchers fear that high doses of HGH taken over a long period of time could produce such side effects as joint-cartilage problems, diabetes, arthritis and heart disease...
...congressional budget ax. At a time of diminishing Pentagon budgets, both the B-2 Stealth bomber and the proposed Advance Tactical Fighter, which will also incorporate Stealth technology, are catching heavy flak in Congress. The Air Force unleashed its F-117As not to scare Manuel Noriega but to build a case that high-tech aircraft have a role even in a low-tech...
...German Democratic Republic was losing its best, brightest, most promising citizens, precisely those people who socialist propaganda said were going to build a better future. They were, but not in the G.D.R. Arriving in the West, many of them explained that they had left the East not because their lives were uncomfortable, but because they were unfree...
Andreas Kippe of West Germany's ADAC Auto Club has a favorite. "How many workers does it take to build a Trabi? Answer: two, one to fold and one to paste." But Kippe says the ribbing is all part of West Germany's tough love for the ungainly auto. "Some of these jokes sound nasty," says Kippe, "but people who love each other make jokes about each other." In fact, ADAC's emergency service aids any Trabi in trouble, free of charge...