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...bright side, the U.S. has made substantial strides in curtailing cigarette use. Only 29% of adults now light up, down from 40% in 1965. The biggest decline has been among men: 50% smoked in 1965, less than a third today. Nearly half of all living adults who have ever smoked have quit -- at least for a while...
...Watkins' last Government job was as head of Ronald Reagan's AIDS commission; he showed a gift for drawing agreement from people with very diverse views by coaxing a surprisingly compassionate report out of a sometimes quarrelsome group. Watkins' flexibility will be sorely tested in his new job. His biggest task will be to develop a strategy for resuming nuclear- weapons-fuel production and simultaneously cleaning up the fearsome pollution caused by now closed weapons plants -- so far without access to anything like the tens of billions of dollars in funding that will eventually be required...
...proportion," declares Basil Rifkind, a cholesterol researcher at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. Roughly 15% of the calories in Americans' diets now come from saturated fats. And tropical oils supply only about a fourteenth of that amount. Americans might better worry about cutting back on the two biggest sources of saturated fat: meat and dairy products...
...biggest thing is you plain get tired," soccer Captain Robert Bonnie '89 says. "You come home from practice and want to relax, but you know you need to work. You try to study and you fall asleep...
...came out the winner? As Washington tries to rally international support for its accusation that Muammar Gaddafi is building a chemical- weapons plant, the incident helps the erratic leader play the underdog. -- The prosecution drops its two biggest charges against Oliver North. -- Washington' s Mayor Marion Barry has some serious problems. So does his city...