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...around Cincinnati live some 50 families who in an earlier time of myth and legend might have been accused of drinking from Ponce de Leon's fountain of youth. Yet even in today's pragmatic, scientific world, their arteries do seem to carry an elixir of long life. The members of these families, says investigator Dr. Dennis Sprecher of the University of Cincinnati, "typically live for long periods of time, into their 80s and 90s, with very few instances of heart disease, if indeed they have...
Doctors have discovered that these people carry in their blood a component that seems to protect them against the heart disease that plagues many in the Western world, where affluence has made fatty diets and physical inactivity a common way of life. Rose Sweeney, a head nurse at a Cincinnati hospital, is a member of one of the families. "I eat everything I want," she says. "I don't worry about it as far as affecting my heart or building up plaque in my arteries." Sweeney's mother Regina Darpel, 86, notes that other members of her family have lived...
Boston and Cincinnati were interested in signing Schmidt to a contract. But two days ago, the Phillies put an end to all those rumors and signed their aging superstar...
Although severe, the penalties were not unprecedented. The N.C.A.A. stringently enforces its codes governing recruiting and payments to athletes. Over the years, New Mexico and North Carolina State, among others, have been hit with probation. Both the football and basketball programs at the University of Cincinnati were disciplined late last week for rules violations, and Southern Methodist University's football program is currently serving the N.C.A.A.'s "death penalty" -- a one-year total ban on competition -- because players took under-the-table money...
...rolling countryside of southwestern Ohio, the leaves have begun to turn to brilliant reds, ochers and yellows. But in the Cincinnati suburb of South Greenhills, some ten miles east of the Department of Energy's Fernald nuclear weapons plant, Charles Zinser, 38, was preoccupied, unmindful of the glorious surroundings. Zinser recalled how beginning in 1984 he had rented a vegetable garden near the plant. He often took his two young sons along as he worked. Two years later, both were found to have cancer. Samuel, then eight, had leukemia, and Louis, two, had part of a leg amputated...