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Unfortunately, the health effects of the billions of butts already smoked will continue to be felt for some time. A separate study published in the British journal Lancet predicts that smoking-related disorders -- chiefly cancer, heart disease, stroke and chronic lung disease -- will kill 1 in 5 people living in the industrialized world. The situation is likely to grow even worse in developing countries like China and Indonesia, where about 70% of men smoke, as cigarette manufacturers make up for falling U.S. demand by seeking new markets overseas...
...forever for me to see slender, unmarried women as candidates for gallbladder disease." Prejudiced and mistaken notions also can govern the treatment offered to black women, lesbians and those with a history of venereal disease. For example, says Smith, a doctor quickly diagnosed in a young, married black woman chronic pelvic inflammatory disease -- an ailment that results from previous venereal infection -- though nothing in her history supported such a judgment. Actually, her symptoms and history perfectly matched a diagnosis of endometriosis, a different condition...
Even the creation of inner-city enterprise zones, in which businesses would receive tax breaks and other incentives, may not be enough to draw employers into the dangerous world of drugs and violent crime that chronic poverty has created. After the Watts riots of 1965, Howard Allen, senior board member of Southern California Edison, was active in trying to lure manufacturing to the inner city. This time he is more pessimistic. To him it seems that the obstacles to attracting job-creating enterprises are more firmly entrenched than they were 25 years ago. Says Allen: "We are heading...
...coverage and report on the Winter Olympics in Albertville. "The resilience of my colleagues abroad is a trait I admire," says the former Detroit and San Francisco bureau chief. "In the U.S. you rarely have to worry about phones not working or planes being grounded because of chronic fuel shortages. For many foreign correspondents, that's merely part of daily life." And so is the exciting pace of global change, which our journalists, here and abroad, chronicle each week...
...mesmerizing and innovative storyteller. In the haunted world that she conjures, dead relatives command greater attention than the living. It is a measure of the author's formidable skills that she vividly evokes the misery of Momma Towne and her four stepdaughters without suffocating the reader in their chronic gloom. While the backdrop is one of complaint, cryptic exchanges -- "That again? Are we rehashing that again?" -- are enough to remind us of the women's litany. Their oppressive unhappiness is artfully offset by the vitality of the three youngest Townes, who, like flowers that bloom in urban sidewalk cracks, fight...