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...there were so many things going on [racism, sexism and language barriers] that there was no way taking the kids out for ice cream was going to change long-range what the issues were," says Adiele, the former coordinator of Education for Action and now a visiting professor at Framingham State College...
...survey of 2,191 men is part of the much larger, ongoing Framingham Study, which since 1948 has poked, prodded and bled two generations of men and women to uncover the roots of heart disease. It could help solve a medical problem that has long frustrated cardiologists: Why do some people with normal cholesterol levels have heart attacks? According to Dr. Andrew Bostom of Tufts University, who led the research team, all the men entered the study with no signs of heart disease. And even today their total cholesterol counts are only slightly elevated, averaging 200 mg/dL. (Women also participated...
...comes from or what its normal role in the body is. Scientists believe people's Lp(a) levels are 90% determined by their genes. Lp(a) may promote cholesterol buildup on artery walls. But there is no sure way to reduce high levels of it, although the Framingham researchers speculate that aspirin, which thins the blood, may mitigate its effects. Preliminary evidence also suggests that red wine may drive down the levels of Lp(a)--possibly explaining why the French can eat lots of high-fat foods without suffering high rates of heart disease...
...chips aside, the public thirst for video bloodletting hasn't abated. "You couldn't have better timing for a 3-D shoot-'em-up game like Quake," says Richard Zwetchkenbaum, research director for International Data Corp., a marketing-consultant firm in Framingham, Massachusetts. The way Zwetchkenbaum sees it, Quake's arrival will feed two huge markets: the demand for sophisticated 3-D games, and for multiplayer games that can be contested remotely over the Internet...
...marathon pasta party sponsored by Ronzoni. But from the beginning, Boston has been immensely popular: the seventh running of the marathon in 1903 attracted 200,000 spectators. This year an estimated 1.5 million will cheer the runners on as they move from Hopkinton to Ashland to Framingham to Natick to Wellesley to..."Its obvious strength is 100 years of the best runners in the world," says Bill Rodgers, the folk hero who has won Boston four times. "But it is also the best course anywhere. You run through small towns on your way to Boston. You really have a sense...