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Osteoporosis is thought of as a woman's disease. Women are generally smaller than men and have less bone mass to begin with. They tend to consume less calcium and vitamin D over a lifetime, and in menopause their bodies stop producing bone-protecting estrogen. So when they reach their 70s, many women begin to suffer fractures. Men are not likely to reach that stage until they are in their 80s, and because comparatively few men have lived to be octogenarians, their risk has been more theoretical than real. But as men live longer, osteoporosis will be a major problem...
...Congress to force employers to help too by providing equal insurance coverage for mental and physical health. (Currently, insurance plans can charge higher co-payments for psychiatric visits than for other medical care.) Clinton aims to set an example by announcing at the conference that the Federal Government will begin providing its employees equal benefits for mental and nonmental ailments...
Attacking this problem all at once is impossible. It would take billions of dollars. The state of Virginia alone would have to spend $500 million to begin providing adequate community treatment, according to a 1998 report prepared for it by consultants. Virginia's Governor, Jim Gilmore, has proposed spending $41 million instead. The Clinton plan would increase the mental-health grants that go to all states by just $70 million next year, to $358 million...
There are lots of moments to begin this tale of Chinese spying, American bungling and diplomatic trembling, but let's take the day in 1955 when Shanghai-born Qian Xuesen goes home. He had fled the Japanese occupation of China and landed at M.I.T., then earned a Ph.D. at Caltech, where he joined a rocket-research group to pioneer supersonic aerodynamics and thin-shell-stability theory for ballistic missiles. At the university's prestigious Jet Propulsion Lab, he helped design Private A, the first U.S. solid-fuel missile that worked. Then he was invited into the U.S. Army...
China's primary military aim may be to look and not act muscular, but that hasn't stopped others from wondering under what scenarios Beijing would actually use its muscles. It's a question the Chinese themselves are struggling to answer. To begin with, China is surrounded by several other regional powers: Russia, Japan, South Korea and India. And it has special security worries with each nation. Russia's internal chaos could spill into China's already uneasy Western provinces. An India-Pakistan war--something that didn't look too farfetched as the two nations shelled each other last week...