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...Congress doesn't act now--when its constitutional powers have been abused to the point of ruin--it may never get another chance. The long-abused War Powers Resolution has been dealt a fatal blow by Bush's arrogant disregard of Congress in the Persian Gulf crisis. If Congress doesn't start to take seriously its Constitutional power to declare war, it will effectively lose...
...years ago, as Ronald Reagan recovered from near fatal gunshot wounds, he declared that he still opposed gun control. Last week the former President announced that he had changed his mind. In a speech at George Washington University, where he was treated after being shot by John W. Hinckley, Reagan called on Congress to enact a law requiring a seven-day waiting period for the purchase of handguns...
...Many of those people already have heart diseases of some kind, but many do not," said Kirby. While only 20 percent of the deaths occur among people under the age 65 and five percent to people under 45, young people are affected by the type of stress that proves fatal...
...There is evidence, and we believe, that response in the brain to stimuli can trigger this," Kirby said, while emphasizing that the exact mechanism behind the fatal attack is not well known...
...goals of the study, Kirby said, is to find ways to "predict why only some people develop fatal heart rhythms under stress." Such an understanding will not only help prevent sudden stress-caused deaths but will facilitate the discovery of drugs to aid the heart in times of frustration, she said...