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...Cross seems confused about the ages of her characters; a man who seems thirtyish suddenly becomes a World War II vet, for example. The denouement of the mystery is predictable and dull. And a minor annoyance: Cross's work suffers from the classic academician's addiction to the semi-colon. Alas, it is no surprise, considering Amanda Cross is, in real life, Carolyn Heilbrun, a tenured professor of English at (of all places) Columbia...
...coffee lovers the black brew is an elixir that soothes frazzled nerves, gives the mind a lift at exam time, spells drop-in hospitality to the housewife. Yet in recent years coffee has been tentatively tied to various afflictions, including diabetes, heart attack, and cancer of the colon, urinary tract and stomach. Last week Harvard University researchers announced a statistical link between coffee and cancer of the pancreas. The pancreas produces enzymes vital to digestion and the hormone insulin for sugar metabolism. Pancreatic cancer claims 22,000 lives a year. It is the fifth largest cause of cancer death...
Last week, after a six-week delay, In cumbent Romero was at last declared the winner. He received 47.2% of the votes to Hernandez Colon's 47.1% - a margin of 3,503 ballots...
...Democratic Lieutenant Governor Ted Schwinden won the top job after upsetting Governor Thomas Judge in the primary. It may be days before the outcome is known in Puerto Rico, where Statehood Advocate and incumbent Governor Carlos Romero Barcelo finished in a virtual dead heat with former Governor Rafael Hernandez Colon, who favors keeping the island's commonwealth status...
...with a victory in the 100-meter dash; Wells needed a closing rush to edge out Cuba's Silvio Leonard in the relatively slow time of 10.25. (The best U.S. time this year was 10.02 by James Sanford of the University of Southern California.) A Cuban woman, Maria Colon, set an Olympic record in winning the javelin. Jaak Uudmae, 25, of the Soviet Union, won the triple jump, foiling Teammate Victor Saneyev's bid to win four consecutive golds in the event. Saneyev, 34, who first won the triple jump in the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, finished...