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...doctor--now more than ever, as evidenced by the way we are scarfing down unregulated nutritional supplements to deter the Grim Reaper from a premature visit. Prompted in part by this growing self-care movement and in part by drug companies, the Food and Drug Administration is reviewing the process it uses to decide when a prescription medicine is ready to be sold freely on store shelves...
...could cause serious side effects. Also, no one knows whether strategies aimed at lowering levels of beta amyloid will have any impact on the course of Alzheimer's disease--though if the beta-amyloid hypothesis is right, they should. Selkoe and other Amyloid People now see the disease process as a biochemical cascade; the event that triggers the cascade, they believe, is the accumulation of beta amyloid...
...Florida law that outlaws any award that would bankrupt its target was nice planning by industry lobbyists, and one this size surely falls into that category. The judge is expected to do his part in whittling down the amount. And the appeals process - whether it's the two-year trip to the Florida Supreme Court envisioned by most experts, or the 75-year flood of individual trials that Webb was crowing about - ought to do the rest. The tobacco lawyers' shrill and relentless hubris might just have resulted in an award that's more like a balloon than a bill...
...search for Harvard's next president has not officially begun. But the outcome of the search will be closely tied to the way the search itself is conducted. The Corporation has expressed a commitment to giving members of the community a voice in the search process. But unless some substantial changes are made, either to the composition of the search committee or to openness of the process, its words will ring hollow...
Yasser Arafat's call for reinforcements Friday confirmed - as if any confirmation was necessary - that the Camp David talks are an uphill battle. The Palestinian leader invited members of opposition groups who had opposed the Oslo Peace process to join him for consultations inside the sequestered compound, citing a need to canvass a wider body of Palestinian opinion. TIME.com phoned West Bank correspondent Jamil Hamad in Bethlehem to assess the latest developments...