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...while physicians and scholars nationwide digest these multiple findings, Sheffer says he's on to the next step. The Medical School professor is planning a conference to discuss ways to prevent asthma death worldwide...
...vegetables have long been implicated in the disease. One clue: the ailment becomes more common among people as they emigrate from countries, like Japan, where meat consumption is low, to the U.S., where meat is a staple. Scientists speculate that bile acids produced by the liver to help digest fats can damage the intestine. Another theory is that red meat may contain cancer-triggering chemicals...
...many magazines are like microwave cheeseburgers: quick, convenient and bland. Yet one quirky exception has been eminently successful at putting spice in the American reading diet: the Utne Reader, an alternative Reader's Digest stuffed with provocative articles gleaned mostly from the country's left- < leaning and fringe press. Founded six years ago, the Minneapolis-based bimonthly has become a handbook for baby boomers, new agers and whole earthers, as well as the odd eclectic middle-of-the-roader. Says television essayist Bill Moyers, an inveterate reader: "I wish I had invented it. It's sort of like an underground...
...director with East West Journal in Brookline, Mass. He left in 1974 to help start another alternative publication, New Age Journal. After a stint as a Manhattan literary agent, Utne returned to Minneapolis and started the Reader as a newsletter, which soon blossomed into a hefty 128-page digest...
Still, direct mailers are growing more sensitive to consumer concerns about increasingly interwoven data bases. A few direct mailers refuse to rent their lists to other mailers. Among the holdouts: the Red Cross, Reader's Digest and AT&T, which posts close to 300 million pieces of promotional mail annually...