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...very undistinguished" three-term career in the House. A moderate Republican, he had loyally supported Reagan's economic program in what he called "my own best political interests." But as the white-haired lawmaker spent 19 days in the Bethesda National Naval Medical Center undergoing treatment for a chronic back problem, he brooded about his pro-Reagan votes. "I had a gut feeling that I was wrong," he recalls. "I should have paid attention to it. I was as guilty as anyone...
MacCaffrey said he sees no need for changes in the department's treatment of two of its chronic problems--faculty members in the same specialty taking leaves of absence at the same time, stripping a sub-area of the department of many of its course offerings, and the shortage of tenured women professors...
Sketching by the soft light of a California morning, he looks vaguely like a whiskery Whistlerian portrait. Indeed, the first photographs of Henry Fonda, 76, since he underwent further treatment last year for a chronic heart ailment, provide a poignant glimpse of the actor recuperating at his home in Bel Air. Fonda keeps busy with an old passion, painting. Although he received a Best Actor nomination for his role in On Golden Pond, he has no plans to suit up for the Academy Awards in March. In fact, his only immediate chore is to rid himself of his facial hair...
...people will die of cancer in the U.S. this year, and the report charges smoking will lead to 129,000 of those deaths. Tobacco, Koop said at a press conference, "is responsible for some 340,000 deaths in this country annually," not only from cancer but from heart trouble, chronic lung and respiratory diseases, and other ailments. Previous reports have blamed smoking by pregnant women for miscarriages, premature births and birth defects. Discussing the effects of smoking, Koop said: "This can only presage human tragedy in the years ahead and enormous economic loss to our country." He noted that smoking...
Heart and Lung Damage. Like heavy cigarette smoking, chronic heavy marijuana use may lead to cancer of the respiratory tract and seriously impair the lungs. It can raise the heart rate and blood pressure, as does stress. Such effects are serious for people who suffer from hypertension, cerebrovascular disease and coronary atherosclerosis (fatty deposits in the blood vessels of the heart...