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...information in the folder that have in some instances hardened prior convictions and at other times produced subtle changes in the President's beliefs. He is certain that the Soviet Union is conducting the most awesome military buildup in history. If at times there seems to be an excess of anti-Soviet exhortation in the President's rhetoric, it may spring from the kaleidoscopic picture of world events that Allen and his aides produce every day. Terse paragraphs tell the story in words. Satellite pictures lay it out in stunning detail: tanks, planes, missiles, submarines, divisional cantonments carved...
...members who have died of heart attacks. Chances of an attack go up as a person grows older. Obviously, age, sex, race and heredity are beyond an individual's control. But there are other risk factors-high levels of cholesterol in the blood, cigarette smoking, high blood pressure, excess weight, stress and tension, lack of physical activity-that a person can do something about...
...density lipoprotein (LDL) and very-low-density lipoprotein (VLDL). HDL-cholesterol appears to be "good" cholesterol. Explains Dr. Antonio Gotto of the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston: "We think that high-density lipoprotein may work as a scavenger of cholesterol from the tissues, ridding the body of excess cholesterol." Research is under way to determine whether coronary disease can be fought more effectively by manipulating the levels...
...gave the entertainer Carol Burnett when she won her suit against the National Enquirer. Nobody rushes to defend the shoddy gossiping of the Enquirer-beyond its First Amendment "right" to print it. Even though gossip and personality stories have become a major journalistic trend, the Enquirer does it to excess. The press has other, permanently hostile critics always ready to decry bias in even the most honest reporting. The Janet Cooke case gave Richard Nixon the chance to cry "irresponsible" at the Post, and to add piously: "I hope they do better in the future." Journalists often lament that...
...Saudis could tighten up world oil supplies at a stroke by simply cutting back on their "excess" production. But the desert kingdom, for now at least, is holding output high and depressing prices, ostensibly to force other OPEC members to support a Saudi plan to link the price of oil to inflation and the value of key world currencies. Such a pricing formula would bring about a moderate but steady long-term rise in petroleum prices...