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...heart disease, women more often show some abnormalities. Consequently, many doctors are apt to ignore a slight irregularity in women's EKGs, explains Dr. Gerald Pohost, "unless it is crystal clear the woman has heart disease." Pohost, director of the division of cardiovascular disease at the University of Alabama Medical Center, thinks that the high rate of EKG errors may result partly from the placement of electrodes on a woman's chest -- more difficult to do because of the female anatomy...
ELEC. VOTES CLINTON BUSH PEROT Alabama 9 41 48 11 Alaska* 3 39 36 25 Arizona* 8 41 37 21 Arkansas 6 53 36 11 California 54 46 35 19 Colorado 8 41 36 23 Connecticut 8 42 36 22 Delaware 3 44 36 21 District of Columbia 3 86 9 4 Florida 25 40 41 20 Georgia 13 43 43 14 Hawaii 4 50 36 14 Idaho 4 29 44 28 Illinois 22 49 34 17 Indiana 12 37 43 20 Iowa 7 43 38 19 Kansas 6 34 39 27 Kentucky 8 45 42 14 Louisiana...
...town is more emblematic of the South's segregationist past than Selma, Alabama, where black Baptist clergyman Martin Luther King Jr. led a climactic civil rights march in 1965. But a racial line has now disappeared in Selma, as delegates from 24 congregations in Alabama's dominant Southern Baptist faith voted to admit the Freedom Baptist Church as the first black member of the city's Baptist association. Said newly entering pastor Letha Rumph: "I can see that a revival has begun in Selma." A white colleague, the Rev. Ron Davis, chimed in: "God won't let us fail...
...roamed the red eroded gullies and toxicstreams of Alabama (which were in abundance inthose days), looking for patches of naturalenvironment, (which weren't easy to find inthose days), I said to myself that it's betterelsewhere in the world and when I am able to maketrips to the serious tropics, like Cuba, theAmazon and New Guinea, that's when I'll find thewildernesses and the great environments.B-9Crimson File PhotoE.O. Wilson, with baboon...
...Alabama, Wilson encountered an academicenvironment well-suited to his interests. Inaddition to studying under an influentialprofessor who served as his early mentor, Wilson"had the good fortune of becoming buddies with asmall gang of other budding entomologists." Hereceived a good education at Alabama--"evenwithout Nobel Laureates teaching me. We didn'thave a giant accelerator or a great laboratory ofbiochemistry, but we had the Alabama naturalenvironment and that was as good as anylaboratory...