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Senior Army officials seriously considered killing the program last summer. But they insist that however unlikely the prospect of a major armored war, they wouldn't want to fight one with outmoded howitzers. So they've put the Crusader on a diet and cut the original buy of 1,138 systems down to 480, for $11 billion. Army generals boast they have turned the program around "nearly on a dime" and that the gun will be ideal for everything "from small-scale contingencies to full combat." But it will still require huge cargo planes to get to war quickly. They...
...divorced his wife--they had a prenuptial agreement--but he decided to kill her. He was a lonely man in a big hurry--mortality was staring him in the face. Stahl was 57 years old, 5 ft. 11 in. and 180 lbs.; he exercised daily and ate a healthy diet. But he had had triple-bypass surgery at 37, numerous angioplasty treatments since then and, in July 1999, a quadruple-bypass operation that doctors had given him only a 20% chance of surviving. His heart was more congested than the Los Angeles freeway system. "Ken Stahl was going...
...risk of suffering a heart attack in some women. A long-term study is expected to produce a definitive answer some time during the next five years or so. Until then, women with high cholesterol levels should get plenty of exercise, limit the amount of saturated fat in their diet and listen carefully if their physician suggests taking a cholesterol-lowering drug...
...most important thing [for the DASH diet and salt study] is implementation," Sacks says. "The food industry and the national and international health policy groups should take a look at this and should consider more stringent guidelines...
...President dies twice, the first time when taking leave of the White House, with its massive power and all its trappings--the marble splendor, the world-class chefs, the Navy stewards bringing your Diet Coke on a silver tray. A temperature-perfect limo waits at the door. You have intersection control. Barbra Streisand croons just...