Word: clinics
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...their own. Those old stalwarts, diet and exercise, still play a crucial role in any good weight-loss program. All that drugs can do is tilt the odds in favor of success. "It's a way of modifying the struggle," says Dr. Arthur Frank, director of the obesity clinic at George Washington University. "It can offer a 10% to 20% boost...
...bone-thin models in the fashion ads seem to live only in slivers of the U.S. along the two coasts -- primarily in New York City and Los Angeles. The people in the country's midsection, points out Dr. Michael Jensen, who treats obese people at Minnesota's Mayo Clinic, tend to be beefier. "There's a lot less social pressure to maintain a lean weight in the Midwest," he says...
Though John C. Salvi III -- the man charged with closing out 1994 by shooting up three abortion clinics, killing two people and wounding five others -- was under lock and key last week, the reverberations of his two-day rampage could be felt from coast to coast. In St. Louis, Missouri, the Reproductive Health Services clinic is purchasing an intercom so that the security guard posted outside can relay messages without having to open the front door. The Choices Women's Medical Center in New York City, which is already patrolled by armed guards, made plans to install a metal detector...
Massachusetts, Virginia and federal authorities worked to untangle the maze of charges each has brought against John Salvi, the 22-year-old hairdressing student captured in Virginia and accused of killing two abortion-clinic employees in the Boston area. Salvi was returned to Massachusetts, where he faces murder charges. In a bizarre statement denying guilt and alleging discrimination against Catholics (by Freemasons, no less), Salvi said that if convicted, "I wish to receive the death penalty," but if acquitted, "I will become a Catholic priest...
...seems like the Catholic Church may have gotten the message. Cardinal Bernard Law recently called for a moratorium on clinic protests "to avoid on the side of the pro-life movement anything which might engender anger or some other form of violence." This courageous move should be applauded by pro-choice and anti-choice activists alike. It is a step in the right direction, but only a step...