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...this atmosphere, it was relatively easy for Bush to exploit the royalist genes that linger in the Republican bloodstream despite the transfusion of Reaganism. None of his rivals could make a convincing case that the normal line of succession should be suspended in 1988. On Tuesday night one of Dole's Democratic friends, Party Elder Bob Strauss, was visibly saddened by the G.O.P. election returns. Then he brightened and observed, "The Democratic Party may be better off with this result." However, such doubts about Bush's ability to defend the Reagan palace, either in November or in the White House...
...data showed that while the placebo group had suffered 189 heart attacks, the group taking aspirin had only 104. Moreover, taking aspirin also produced a reduction in the number of cardiac deaths. Still, researchers were concerned that aspirin, which works by preventing clots in the bloodstream, might lead to an increase in certain kinds of strokes; the suspended study showed a slight increase of such strokes among the aspirin takers...
...alcohol takes the worst toll on the liver, where most of the ethanol in the bloodstream is broken down. Because alcohol is so high in calories (there are 110 calories per jigger of 90-proof liquor), the liver metabolizes it instead of important nutrients, a phenomenon that can lead to severe malnutrition. The high caloric content of ethanol also causes fat to build up in the liver, one of the earliest stages of alcoholic liver disease. This is frequently followed by scarring of the liver tissue, which interferes with the organ's task of filtering toxins from the blood...
Cholesterol, the fatty substance that can clog arteries and induce heart attacks, plays a role in 85% of America's 550,000 annual deaths resulting from coronary heart disease. Ridding the bloodstream of the stuff through exercise and proper diet has become a standard health regimen. Last week, however, in a landmark paper in the New England Journal of Medicine, a group of Finnish scientists provided dramatic endorsement for a drug that drastically lowers the incidence of such disease, chiefly by raising the blood levels of a type of cholesterol...
...Beth. And how does a film with no surefire stars, no space-age special effects, no ringing affirmation of the human spirit, no discernible pretensions toward art, no unanimous blessing from the critics -- and not a single teenager among its cast of characters -- luck into the national bloodstream? By tapping the current mood of sexual malaise with a cautionary -- indeed, reactionary -- tale about an errant husband, a faithful wife and a career woman unlucky in love. And by skewing a Hitchcockian domestic thriller into a rousing horror show. Fatal Attraction starts as Vertigo and ends as Psycho...