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Indeed, the conclusions of the CDC report are "inferential," concedes Epidemiologist Reuel Stallones of the University of Texas, who contributed to a 1980 report from the National Academy of Sciences that found the human health hazards of antibiotic feeds "neither proven nor dis-proven." But, he adds, "this is the best evidence I've seen up to this time that human illness is somehow linked to the use of antibiotics in animals for growth promotion. This study draws the net much tighter around the issue, but it is still a net, not a rope.'' -By Anastasia Toufexis...
Fixx was fond of noting that regular aerobic workouts generally diminish the risk of heart dis ease; cholesterol levels, blood pressure, body weight and pulmonary function have all been shown to be positively influenced by exercise. A new study, conducted at Harvard and Stanford and published in last week's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, further confirms the benefits. According to its principal author, Dr. Ralph Paffenbarger, the study of 17,000 men ages 35 through 84 revealed "a direct relationship between the level of physical activity and the length of life." Fatal heart disease...
...about. A perverse indication of the paper's power came last month, when the Securities and Exchange Commission opened a formal investigation into leaks to stock traders about what items were to appear in its "Heard on the Street" column. The Journal is far from complete: editors can dis miss political developments in a paragraph, and the paper's three daily Page One stories, while almost invariably literate, are not always on top of the news. But the Journal is the only truly international American newspaper, available on the day of publication virtually everywhere...
...power as an image comes partly from the sheer blatancy of its fiction. The fact that the plane, the liner and the sub are sso toylike carries one back to the I mock battles of the nursery, to the child's delight in constructing harmless miniature wrecks that dis charge the aggressions of child? hood. "As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport." So the real subject of Morley's painting is not so much the death of people or the destruction of machinery as the general, "ineradicable ground...
...year of 1978, 900,000 vans were sold. But rising gasoline prices and the recession eroded the demand for these customized, fantasies-on-wheels wagons. By 1981, sales of vans had dropped to 342,000. Early customer surveys indicate that a whole new class of car buyers is now dis covering vans. Most are former owners of sedans or station wagons, and only 3% previously had vans. Says Maryann Kel ler, a portfolio manager and auto-industry analyst with Vilas-Fischer Associates in New York City: "This is a whole new concept to foist on suburbia...