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Willett, who has been at HSPH since 1980 and chair of the Department of Nutrition for five years, said he studies dietary factors and other lifestyle behaviors in relation to cancer, cardiovascular disease and other chronic illnesses...
...just that kind of chronic weaseling that led the two top Democrats in Congress to open the week with a primal scream. Dick Gephardt and Tom Daschle got together last Monday morning to warn the White House in the most public way possible that unless they reeled in the lawyers and stopped all this "legally accurate" nonsense, the road to impeachment would be short and slick. "Dick and Tom went public," said a colleague, "because the private counseling wasn't working...
Timing is critical in other ways as well. About 90% of adults are eventually able to shake off a hepatitis-B infection, while the other 10% become chronic carriers and face a greater risk of liver damage, liver cancer and death. Things get much worse when children are involved. About 90% of infected infants (who usually get the virus before birth) become chronic carriers...
Republicans have the comfort of expecting that in November voters will be more likely to punish the Democrats. After all, Clinton is the head of their party, while Ken Starr, a chronic loser in opinion polls, is not on the ballot. That's why a vocal and growing minority of Republicans, led by House whip Tom DeLay, is demanding that the full text of the report be made public as soon as it arrives. For different reasons, so did Democrat John Dingell of Michigan. Like many Democrats, he may figure that the details will come out anyway...
...elder mistreatment may be more dire than suspected. A study of more than 2,800 senior citizens showed that those abused or neglected were more than three times likelier than their peers to die during a 13-year follow-up period, even adjusting for factors like injury and chronic illness. The findings indicate that mistreatment, researchers say, can be as perilous as many diseases...