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Doctors are concerned that the demand for growth hormone has exploded before they really understand what it can do or what its long-term effects are. While HGH is a helpful treatment for a deficiency of the hormone, its benefits to non-HGH-deficient but short children are not yet...
Scenes that were part of an otherworldly mixture of triumph and fear, suspicion and hope: peasants making the V-for-victory sign outside empty shops or beside wells said to have been poisoned by the Securitate. No one confident that those brutal defenders of the old regime were really gone...
What has been called the third industrial revolution, the transformation of society by high technology and mass communications, has made it possible to infiltrate competing images of reality across borders. "Terrestrial overspill" allowed East Germans to watch West German TV, tempting them with what they saw advertised. Young Estonians have...
Experts almost unanimously blame drugs for the homicide surge. "What's different now than in the late '70s and early '80s?," asks New York Assistant Police Chief Raymond Kelly. "Crack."
Church's desire to go south was sparked by his reading the German explorer and naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), who had traveled in Central and South America at the turn of the century. Humboldt was not only a scientist but a great popularizer. As Stephen Jay Gould points...