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...nation's leading killer. In study after study since the 1960s, however, they have sought to determine whether aspirin can help prevent heart trouble in healthy individuals. The results have been mixed: while some studies showed that aspirin decreased the number of attacks, others failed to demonstrate any benefit at all. Last week a report in the New England Journal of Medicine found that taking one aspirin every other day dramatically reduced the risk of an initial heart attack by 47%. Almost simultaneously, another study published in the British Medical Journal found that aspirin made little difference in thwarting heart...
...trying to loosen its collar. Last week Chairman John Akers announced a historic restructuring in which the company's top management will transfer much of its decision-making authority to five newly created groups that will act almost like separate companies. "This is a major decentralization," said Akers. "The benefit will be that our management team will spend less time at corporate headquarters and more time with customers." The shake-up, which Akers called "my idea," squelched suspicions that the 53-year-old chairman's authority might be eroding along with IBM's profits. Says Steven Milunovich, who follows...
...told TIME Correspondent David Beckwith as they flew across Iowa. "I don't want to dwell on it. I don't want to discuss it. I've said it was an event, a powerful event, and you've seen the reactions from around the country. But there's no benefit for me to dwell on it. I was amazed at the response everywhere we went this week -- Wyoming, South Dakota, Iowa -- but there's no point in my trying to capitalize on it." Did Bush feel his judgment or integrity has been called into question by his Iran-contra role...
...televison's "defining" moment is not usually defined at the time. The moment gains resonance through hindsight. The original memory is adjusted and tinkered with by what comes afterward. Reviewing the Kennedy- Nixon debates reveals that Kennedy was almost as nervous and stilted as Nixon. In the end, the benefit Bush can draw from his tangle with Rather will depend on whether viewers recall it as a moment of justified indignation or as a peevish attempt to avoid coming to terms with the Iran-contra affair. It could go either way, for in fact it was both...
...that evening, Hart became hopelessly lost while searching for the right baggage-claim carrousel. As the couple and a small group of reporters wandered aimlessly around the terminal, Lee could not resist taunting her husband, "You're not showing leadership, Gary." She even repeated the wisecrack for the reporters' benefit. Later, in South Dakota, Lee's interjections caused Gary to ask her to hold her peace until she had an interview of her own. "O.K.," Lee retorted. "I'll wait until I run for President...