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...killer. A person's risk of heart attack depends mostly on a familiar repertoire of factors: exercise, smoking, diet, weight, genes. But our bodies' circadian rhythms also play a role, leaving us more prone to injury during certain hours than others. If you're guessing that the danger zone comes at the end of a stressful workday, guess again. Here to explain is Roberto Manfredini, professor of internal medicine at the University of Ferrara in Italy...
...sought to replace SALT with the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks during his first term. The Soviets would be required to cut back drastically on their ICBM warheads in a way that reduced or, better yet, eliminated the theoretical possibility of a first strike against American ICBMs and the danger of political intimidation and blackmail that they might derive from that capability. During his first term, Reagan proposed drastic reductions in Soviet offensive forces, especially in ICBM warheads. But his only leverage then was the prospect of an American offensive buildup, which included plans for the ten-warhead MX missile...
...looking down on it from a helicopter, it's not at all apparent why this is so. But one knows there is a silent enemy lurking there.'' The enemy, of course, is radiation. There have been reports that some people, including looters, did not realize the danger. A Soviet newspaper disclosed that police sentries and, later, burglar alarms were used to protect Pripyat's abandoned dwellings. Beyond that, Soviet militia units and troops man watchtowers and checkpoints along a 60-mile perimeter. Despite the elaborate surveillance, two elderly women reportedly managed to hide in their Pripyat homes for more than...
...conference whether he was trying to skirt Nitze's standard, Abrahamson demurred. He conceded that he might have ''erred'' by using the word ''affordable,'' but he seemed to fudge by insisting that the question was not merely economic. ''You also have to consider the military situation and what the danger is that the nation faces.'' Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, in an interview with TIME last week, was more explicit in challenging Nitze's standard. ''I think the technical definition of cost- effectiveness, somebody trying to define what the margin means, is not very useful,'' he declared. ''We can afford...
...police such sweeping new power. Even so, 8,000 people were arrested during that period. In a speech before Parliament announcing the new state of emergency, State President Botha justified its nationwide scope by charging that the ''radical and revolutionary elements'' planning the Soweto commemoration ''pose a real danger for all population groups in our country.'' Said he: ''The ordinary laws of the land are inadequate to ensure the security of the public and to maintain public order...