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...period, those with no ties to others were two to three times as likely to die as those with bonds to spouses, friends, relatives, churches and other organizations. Other studies have found that people with narrower social networks are more likely to have a heart attack--and to die afterward--while people with more social contacts are less likely to suffer cognitive decline...
...urgent call to TeleQuest, a Texas-based telemarketing firm, asking it to call thousands of Palm Beach voters to alert them to the complications on the ballot. Two hours later the company's phone clerks began making the first of some 5,000 calls. A TeleQuest spokesman said afterward almost half the people contacted thought they might have made a mistake when they voted...
...Gore got the popular vote, and Bush, for the moment, has the edge in Florida. "Jeb says George is going to win," said the former President after the vote, spirits up again, though the political realist in him had prepared earlier for the possibility of defeat. "There is life afterward, and George is very strong; he is very strong - and resilient. He will land on his feet in five minutes, but there will be hurt, deep hurt...
...They're also in charge of Congress, as Speaker wannabe Dick Gephardt was all too happy to point out. "This is not a do-nothing Congress, this is a dysfunctional Congress," Gephardt said afterward, tossing in a "they're beholden to special interests" line just to make sure everybody got the point...
...Barak for his flexibility and chided Arafat for his lack of it. Much of the world embraced the Israeli interpretation that their awesome generosity had been stupidly spurned. Clinton seriously underestimated how entrenched Arafat was in his positions before the summit, and still thought he could budge him afterward. U.S. officials expected that Arafat would come forward with a counteroffer. Then Clinton could stage-manage a split-the-difference agreement giving both sides cover for daring but conflict-settling compromises...