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...animal hair; subfloors made from Homasote, a recycled-newspaper product, instead of formaldehyde-laden plywood; floor tiles fabricated from crushed light bulbs; a CFC-free insulation made from common minerals; and a reception desk built of maple and of mahogany that was harvested in a manner that does not destroy rain forests...
Russia's immediate problem is its currency. The ruble is play money, testimony to John Maynard Keynes' observation that "the surest way" to destroy a government is to "debauch its currency." Thanks to an unrestrained government printing press run by Moscow's central bank (whose chairman is appointed by the parliament Yeltsin doesn't control), the ruble supply has tripled since last July. Now, with the inflation rate approaching 50% a month, no Westerner in his right mind would invest in Russia. For Yeltsin, says Michael Mandelbaum, the Johns Hopkins University professor who wrote the Clinton transition team's Russia...
...results, published in today's issue of the journal Cell, describe how the body activates infection-fighting cells called neutrophils that find and destroy damaged tissue...
Shwartz said he was trying to destroy the "archtype of selfishness" by defining it merely as "a concern with one's own interest...
...same journal, scientists revealed that multiple sclerosis, the crippling nervous-system disease, may be linked to white blood cells with a specific genetic rearrangement. These white cells seem to destroy the sheath that surrounds nerves and protects their ability to conduct messages...