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GEROVITAL, a compound based on a well-known painkiller (one trade name: Novocain). Gerovital is sold in several European countries as a fountain-of-youth drug. The FDA has banned it because it has been proved neither safe nor effective...
...there has been no trouble involving Jews and Arabs at Kaddum, an 18-month-old settlement of 200 Israelis near Nablus that overlooks two Palestinian villages, Git and Kaffar Kaddum. There is little contact between the communities. Living inside a guarded, wire-fenced military compound, the settlers are completely isolated from their neighbors. Says Ze'ev Saffer, who runs Kaddum's drugstore: "We do not buy supplies from them because they want everything in cash and are not ready to give us credit." The Arabs, for their part, are hostile and suspicious. "They are not farmers," one told...
...Polish ghetto. On an impulse, Jacob claims to own a forbidden radio on which he has heard that the Russian army will soon be near enough to liberate the ghetto. His neighbors, desperate for more news, rally around to cajole, flatter and protect him, forcing him to compound his first fabrication endlessly...
...indicators released last week confirmed that the recovery is progressing well, except for one persistent problem area - inflation. The surge in the cost of goods and services that began at the start of the year continued in April, when the consumer price index kicked up nearly 1%, to a compound annual rate of 10%. It was the third month this year in which the zigzagging inflation rate has hovered at or close to the double-digit level. The main cause, as in January and February, was increases in the cost of food (the largest single rise: ground coffee...
Laetrile has also been winning victories in the courts. A Kansas man who had rectal cancer testified that the compound, which releases cyanide in the body, is keeping him alive. A federal judge not only let him import the drug - available in Mexico, West Germany and other countries - but forced the reluctant FDA to hold its first public hearings on Laetrile. The two-day session in Kansas City, Mo., attracted 300 supporters, who continually booed and jeered the drug's critics...