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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Moore, aware of increased risk of postmenopausal heart disease, would worry if a patient was overweight. Excess body fat tends to negate estrogen's protective effect on the heart. She would point out that foods rich in folate, beta carotene and vitamins A, B6, C and E offer protection against heart disease and cancer. Eating a balanced diet consisting of fruits and vegetables, whole grains, protein sources such as poultry and fish, along with nuts and olive, peanut and canola oils can supply these nutrients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How A Woman's Exam Would Differ | 6/15/1998 | See Source »

...have the pleasure of picking up some of those high flyers you've wanted to buy but considered--rightly, I think--too expensive of late: the Coca-Colas and Lucents, or the funds that hold them. Do your research and make a shopping list now. Plan to put your excess cash back in stocks in equal steps--as any market drop reaches, say, 8%, 12%, 16%, then 20%. If the market turns around before the final threshold, keep putting money in as those levels are breached going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Stock Market: Your Crash Plan | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

Huang's bad luck continued. A week before spring finals, Huang found out she had a urinary tract infection. While being treated, which should have been a fairly standard process, Huang experienced complications that led to a kidney infection, excess fluid in her lungs and eye problems. Huang got out of the hospital the night before her first final. Though she hadn't studied, she took her exams because she didn't want to go through taking makeups again...

Author: By Joshua J. Schanker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Whatever Happened to Catherine Huang? | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

...standoff against encroaching fate, would have crowned the evening and rounded memory with a perfect dramatic closure. Too much to expect perhaps, but in a sense that was Sinatra's own fault. Too much, he had always shown us, was the least we could expect from him. Not as excess, mind, but as abundance. So much heart, so much sorrow, such delicacy and such braggadocio, all for the music he made indelible, with enough to spare so that it spilled over into his life and into all the public refractions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Put Your Dreams Away: FRANK SINATRA, 1915-1998 | 5/25/1998 | See Source »

...have said many times this year, starting back in October, we are especially concerned about binge drinking, and drinking to such excess that students' safety and good judgment are impaired," he said...

Author: By M. DOUGLAS Omalley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MIT Begins Search for `Alcohol Czar' to Coordinate Policies | 5/20/1998 | See Source »

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