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Following the Ohio episode, Maryland's crisis may have dealt a fatal blow to private insurance in the rest of the country. While 83% of U.S. thrifts are federally insured, 30 states allow at least some of their banks, thrifts or credit unions to rely on private coverage. Many institutions that are small or in a hurry to grow prefer local insurance funds because they tend to be less strict than federal regulators. Old Court, for example, was able to boast money-market accounts with interest rates of up to 11%, compared with about 8.5% offered by federally insured thrifts...
...drive drunk. Ralph Milstead, director of Arizona's department of public safety, estimates that one of every 100 drivers on the road on Saturday and Sunday nights is "absolutely blitzed, on the verge of comatose." Drunkenness is involved in 30% to 50% of traffic deaths, 45% of all fatal falls, and 50% to 70% of homicides. "Alcohol is a factor in the ten leading causes of premature death," says Nancy Thompson of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. "It cuts across a lot of diseases...
...largest of the studies, conducted in the Netherlands, found a direct link between the amount of fish in the diet and the rate of death from heart disease. Investigators monitored the eating habits of 852 middle-aged Dutchmen for 20 years and found that the incidence of fatal heart disease was more than 50% lower among men who regularly ate fish than those who ate no fish at all--despite the fact that the fish eaters consumed somewhat more cholesterol and more meat than non-fish eaters...
There is a common denominator to Ronald Reagan's current cluster of setbacks in domestic and foreign policy: his penchant for proposing simple solutions to complex problems has finally caught up with him. By no means is this feature of his difficulties bound to prove fatal to him politically; nor is it a function of his conservative ideology. Rather, it is the downside of his wizardry as a politician and as a leader...
...which was dismissed by the defense as not worth cross- examining, was in sharp contrast to the eyewitness accounts given to an investigating commission, the Agrava board, by the soldiers who escorted Aquino from the plane. They insisted that Galman, a small-time gangster, suddenly appeared and fired the fatal shots as Aquino walked across the tarmac. Galman, in turn, was then shot by security officers. Chief Prosecutor Manuel Herrera, who escorted the terrified Quijano into the Sandiganbayan, the court where the trial was in its eleventh week, did not ask her to name the assassin. But Herrera speculated that...