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...with the bacterium develops cancer. Indeed, the bug, which may enter the body through dirty water or human contact, is extremely common: it is present in the gut of 50% of Americans and of up to 90% of people in poorer regions of Asia and Latin America. Researchers believe chronic inflammation, caused by the bacterium, combines with other risk factors, including a salty diet low in fresh fruit and vegetables, to cause the cancer...
...Blame yourself. After all, you signed these big-time busts. You shelled out $32 million of the club's money to pay a mediocre band of chronic underachievers for a year. You made the series of dunder-head trades (Dave Henderson for Randy Kutcher?) that made the Sox so lousy in the first place...
...combination of fear, prudence and even trendiness has turned American consumers into chronic stay-at-homes. "This recession has become a state of exhaustion from the delusions of the 1980s," says Audrey Freedman, a management counselor for the Manhattan-based Conference Board. "There is a general public turning away from confidence in government, the private sector and enterprise itself. We're just tired...
According to Coupland, modern generations are overeducated, underemployed and seem destined to wander the earth as members of the "poverty jet set" ("A group of people given to chronic traveling at the expense of long-term job stability or a permanent residence. Tend to discuss frequent-flyer programs at parties...
Spirit rejuvenated, Raffi, 43, is experiencing the indignities of middle age. He suffers from chronic fatigue syndrome, a hernia, bursitis and high cholesterol. To cleanse his system of impurities, he eats only brown rice and fruit. For the hernia, he sleeps with a magnet on his stomach...