Word: controllable
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...good news is that most people have a large degree of control over their cardiovascular health. For the past two decades, the American Heart $ Association (A.H.A.) has been urging people to protect their hearts by giving up cigarette smoking, controlling hypertension and lowering their cholesterol. Many Americans have responded to the first two recommendations. Now, increasingly, they are listening to researchers like Peter Kwiterovich, professor of pediatrics and medicine at Johns Hopkins, who declares, "We have the evidence that if you lower cholesterol, you can prevent heart disease...
...testified last week in a Manhattan courtroom against her former live-in lover, who is accused of beating to death their illegally adopted six-year-old daughter, Hedda Nussbaum spoke in a firm, clear voice. What emerged was a bizarre tale of violence, drug abuse, isolation and mind control inflicted by disbarred lawyer Joel Steinberg. Asked why she never escaped from Steinberg's thrall, Nussbaum had a simple reply: "I worshiped...
According to Nussbaum, Steinberg, 47, assumed such total control of her life that she could not eat or leave their Greenwich Village apartment without his permission. One night last November, she said, he ordered her and Lisa to eat hot pepper, forcing them to drink glass after glass of tap water. A bit later, while Nussbaum was in the bathroom, Steinberg came in bearing in his arms the bruised and unconscious girl. When Nussbaum asked what had happened, she testified, Steinberg replied, "What's the difference what happened? This is your child. Hasn't this gone far enough?" He then...
...Italian state police, says the Mafia's clout has made it a force strong enough to form an "anti-state." Domenico Sica, the high commissioner named last summer for the specific task of fighting the Mafia, recently warned a parliamentary commission that organized crime was in "total control" of parts of Sicily, Calabria and Campania. The Mob's lucrative drug trade has been shared with its crime families in America...
...recasting the U.S.S.R. as an international good guy is frustrating to many Americans. "It is ironic," says Robert Legvold, a Soviet-affairs expert at Columbia University, "considering that much of what Gorbachev has done the West has advocated, proposed, insisted on for decades -- from human rights to arms control...