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...LYDIA COLON'S MOST PRESSING POLITIcal concern is garbage. A 5-ft. heap of it, piled outside an abandoned row house next door to her home in North Philadelphia, has broken through her chain-link fence. "I would vote 100 times, as long as they come and clean it up," says Colon, a 54-year-old native of Puerto Rico. That may be necessary, since she got no results from the two times she voted in last fall's election...
...Colon says she hadn't intended to vote at all, but when a Democratic Party worker came to her door last October asking her to cast a ballot for his party's state senate candidate, Colon showed him the garbage and asked for his help. The visitor assured her that the Democrats would remove the debris if she just signed a form requesting it. She did and was so delighted at the prospect of a clean backyard that she changed her mind and decided to vote. "I was really happy that they were going to clean...
...more than one a day. In the past 12 months they have located the genes for Huntington's disease, Lou Gehrig's disease, the so-called bubble-boy disease, the disease featured in the film Lorenzo's Oil, a major form of ataxia, and a common kind of colon cancer, among others. Scientists expect to zero in on the first breast-cancer gene any week...
...everyone. The risks of teetotaling are nothing compared with the dangers of too much alcohol, including high blood pressure, strokes and cirrhosis of the liver -- not to mention violent behavior and traffic accidents. Moreover, some studies suggest that even moderate drinking may increase the incidence of breast and colon cancer. Until there is evidence that the benefits of a daily dose of alcohol outweigh the risks, most people won't be able to take a doctor's prescription to the neighborhood bar or liquor store...
...record time, researchers isolate a gene for colon cancer...