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...ischemia will not merely prevent a few thousand dramatic deaths. It will also uncover heart disease in many people who are unaware that they have it. The stress and Holter tests are costly (about $200 each), according to Dr. Carl Pepine, a silent-ischemia expert from the University of Florida at Gainesville, but no more so than the toll ultimately taken by heart disease itself. Says he: "We're talking about the one disease that kills the most people in the country, many in middle age, when they are making their greatest contribution to society. That's expensive...
...Prodigy Stephen Baccus had to molder away until the senescent age of 17 before he was able to become the youngest known person ever sworn in as a lawyer in the U.S. After he passed the bar exam this summer, his father Miami Attorney James Baccus petitioned the Florida Supreme Court for a waiver of the 18-year- old age requirement for those being admitted to practice. "A judge called Stephen and asked if he really wanted to be a lawyer and if he understood what it meant," recalls his mother Florence Baccus. "I guess he gave them the right...
Betty Fussell's I Hear America Cooking (Viking; $24.95), for example, carries the sonorous subtitle "A Journey of Discovery from Alaska to Florida -- the Cooks, the Recipes, and the Unique Flavors of Our National Cuisine." The problem is, her self-imposed "time frame" forces her to bypass the major immigrant groups of the late 19th and 20th centuries, among them Italians, Portuguese, Irish, Poles, Hungarians and Russians. What she really hears is a part of America cooking, and that is less than the title promises. And she goes on at great length with quotes from too many old American cookbooks...
...since at least the end of the Pleistocene epoch, 10,000 years ago, the isolated roosts were discovered by zoologists only in 1975. Alarmed by the disappearance of forests around the sites, the Mexican government and private conservation groups have joined forces to protect them. Says University of Florida Zoologist Lincoln Brower: "We're dealing with one of the most fragile as well as limited habitats in North America...
...They have not played in 15 days, and that is not very good for the competitive spirit," Shattuck said. During those same 15 days, Harvard has played five games, in both the heat of Florida and the cold of Cambridge, which should also be an advantage...