Word: blooded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...local farmer who had been pestered by bears getting into his feed corn. Had to shoot two last year, he said. A fish-and- game-commission biologist said, "Rather than have farmers kill the bears, we would rather have sportsmen utilize the resource." You get used to blood- sport bureaucratese; "utilize,"or "harvest," is what you do when you get something fuzzy and four-footed in your sights. As in most states, New Hampshire's fish and game policies often seem to be caught in a time warp, perhaps in the decade of the 1820s, when subsistence hunting...
...that time, 283 of the participants, all of whom were in good health at the start of the study, had died. And after allowing for various other health-affecting factors, including smoking, age, cholesterol levels, weight, blood pressure and family history of heart disease, they found that deaths were sharply higher in the least-fit category than in the second-most- sedentary group -- more than double for men and almost twice as high for women...
While this and earlier studies agree on the health benefits of regular, moderate exercise, no one is sure of the physiological mechanisms involved. It may be that exercise increases coronary blood flow, decreases clotting or both, which would limit the blood-vessel blockages that cause cardiovascular problems. And some scientists speculate that exercise increases bowel motility, a factor in avoiding colon cancer. Those questions may be answered in part by the next phase of the investigation, which is expected to include more than 40,000 people. Such speculations are literally academic, though. For the average man or woman, the message...
Young is a local hero, a product of Newton and Belmont Hill. He began playing hockey when he was eight, but Young grew up around the game. Two of his uncles played at Boston College, and his father always loved hockey. As Young describes it, hockey was "in the blood...
...rich and poor in Latin America is a major cause of the debt crisis that has racked the region. The boyish Harvard & economist, an adviser to debt-ridden countries from Bolivia to Poland, blames wealthy Latin elites for dodging taxes and arranging self-serving subsidies that have "sucked the blood" from many governments, forcing them to borrow heavily...