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Dates: during 1990-1990
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White House chief of staff John Sununu, appearing on CBS-TV's "Face the Nation," said the administration wants to make sure Noriega gets a fair trial...
...hornet's nest. The criteria are no longer clear." Many parents have been pressuring doctors to try hormone therapy on children who are not abnormally short. One physician recalls a father who asked if his tall son could be made even taller so he would be sure to make the Notre Dame football team. Says Dr. Joseph Gertner, program director of the Pediatric Clinical Research Center at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center: "As people realize that they have control over certain aspects of their appearance, as with orthodontia, nose jobs and breast jobs, those people concerned about stature will...
...business books who wanted his son to be taller asked Gertner for help. Argued the author: "I'd rather my son be 5 ft. 10 and a graduate of N.Y.U.'s business school than 5 ft. 6 and a Harvard Business School graduate. These extra 4 in. in height make much more difference in terms of success in a business career than any paper qualifications you have." Gertner refused to put the author's son on HGH therapy, but some physicians may be more receptive to parental demands. Says Dr. Douglas Frasier, president of the Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society...
BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY. Tom Cruise comes of age an an actor in this impassioned panorama of life, death and rebirth in the Viet Nam years. If director Oliver Stone is almost breathless on the subject, he also packs enough power and craft to make Viet Nam fester on screen -- one more time...
ROGER & ME. In this impish documentary about auto layoffs in Flint, Mich., filmmaker Michael Moore comes across as a Garrison Keillor with a movie camera. And a mission: to beard General Motors Chairman Roger Smith. The picture is sharp and funny. But did Moore have to make his adversaries look so stupid so he could look smart...