Heart risk linked to male hormone study
Georgetown University researchers report testosterone may raise heart attack risk in men versus women. Experiments in rats showed reduced thrombosis and death when testosterone was blocked or replaced by estrogen, suggesting sex, age, and hormones influence arterial clot formation.
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Soviet designed heart implanted in Texas calf at Baylor
A Soviet surgeon implanted a Russian made artificial heart in a Texas calf at Baylor College of Medicine. The operation completes the first phase of a U S Soviet program to design a better heart combining features of both models. Dr George Noon of Baylor noted expected improvements and mutual scientific merit from the exchange.
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Sakhnin Mayor Warns of Arab Population Surge and Land Clash
Sakhnin Mayor Jamal Taravi notes high birthrates among 12,000 Arab residents in Galilee with 500 births yearly and 4.1 percent annual growth. He cites government land expropriation plans to expand Jewish settlements as a existential struggle, fearing diminishing Arab space and political alienation.
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Ex-researcher's report on U S cloud seeding to squeeze Cuba
Lowell Ponte, a former Pentagon researcher, says the CIA and Pentagon secretly seeded clouds to reduce Cuba's 1969 and 1970 sugar harvests. He describes efforts to disrupt rain reaching Cuba, linked to Castro's sugar crop goals, with mixed effects and Castro briefly considering resignation.
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