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...cholesterol in the blood) is high at 148 compared with my "good" HDL (high-density lipoprotein, which helps clear cholesterol), which is 54. Moore assures me I can lower my cholesterol without medication and asks about my diet. While I generally stay away from red meat and eat mostly fish, chicken, vegetables and salads, I confess a weakness for cheese, potato chips and butter on all sorts of things. Moore wonders if I am ready to "commit"--as she says--to eliminating cheese and chips and cutting down on butter. Reluctantly...
...among the most sensitive instruments of its kind in the world. The physicists who use it are widely recognized as extremely careful experimenters. And, says University of Hawaii physicist John Learned, there wasn't much doubt about what they saw. "It was," he says, "something like a big fish slapping you on the face...
...money. The risks are large, but if you're good, so are the rewards. You've just imagined my job. I'm a hedge-fund manager, a term that conjures up swashbuckling billionaires like George Soros, whose trades can drive down entire foreign economies. I'm a much smaller fish: my partner and I manage about $360 million, investing almost all of it in U.S. stocks. But like the big boys, we get to engage in one of the purest, harshest, most exhilarating forms of capitalism. I post million-dollar gains or losses almost every day, and what I learn...
...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...
That may be why Bruce Lindsey and Vernon Jordan--who made his fourth appearance before the grand jury last week--could have plenty to fear. Indicting a bigger fish than Lewinsky could make it much easier for Starr to force Clinton out of hiding. Lindsey's predicament last week was particularly bad: Starr wants to question him on 19 topics, and Judge Norma Holloway Johnson has agreed. Persuading her to side with Starr against Clinton's assertion of Executive privilege was no easy job. Starr could not just argue that Lindsey had been around when all the key decisions were...