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...material, or plaque, in the arteries, has been killing people for centuries. Scientists have found plaque in the arteries of an Egyptian mummy dating from approximately 100 B.C. Leonardo da Vinci described atherosclerosis in his Dell'Anatomia, identifying it as the cause of a "slow death without any fever" that afflicts the elderly. It was not until this century that scientists began to realize that this disease of advancing age actually begins in youth, especially in cultures where the diet is rich. More than 77% of the American soldiers killed in the Korean War were found in autopsies...
Footloose is probably the most sophisticated example yet of the prominent role that musical sound tracks are playing in the marketing of Hollywood movies. Music used to be merely an afterthought or, at best, a happy byproduct of the movie. But the success of Saturday Night Fever in 1977, with its hit Bee Gees score, taught Hollywood a valuable lesson: rock sound tracks can be not only big sellers but big promotional tools for the films they embellish. The lesson was resoundingly driven home with last year's Flashdance, whose album (4.9 million copies sold...
Symptoms of the illness, which include chest congestion, high fever, muscle aches and a cough, last from a week to 10 days, said Dr. Sholem Postel, chief of professional services...
...companies. Arco, having been spurned in its bid for Gulf, may also start shopping. To be sure, there is not likely to be another combine of the size of the Gulf-Socal deal. But as long as the price of oil shares remains cheap compared with exploration costs, merger fever in the oil industry will be far from burned out. -By Alexander L. Taylor III. Reported by Richard Woodbury/San Francisco and Adam Zagorin/New York
...seated in wheelchairs. Around them on every side, portraits of a glowering Khomeini stared down to discourage unholy thoughts and whip up further support. The grand finale of "The Ten Holy Nights," February's celebration of the fifth anniversary of the Islamic Republic, seemed to uncork a patriotic fever bordering on hysteria. "Iran is in a state of great excitement," said a high Japanese official who recently visited the nation. "You feel a strong, flaming energy in Iran...