Word: gordons
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Portable analyzers, though, cannot calculate LDL and HDL levels. Even many laboratories have been unable to give consistently accurate counts of HDL. Yet that figure may be the most vital statistic of all in evaluating cardiovascular health in otherwise moderate- or low-risk individuals. Says Dr. Bruce Gordon, associate professor of medicine at Manhattan's Rogosin Institute: "There are a sizable number of people who would be inappropriately treated unless their HDL levels were taken into account...
...from natural HDL made in the body. At the Rogosin Institute, researchers are injecting this compound into rabbits to see if raising HDL protects them against atherosclerosis. Should such experiments succeed, it is conceivable that synthetic HDL could one day become an effective treatment for heart patients. Rogosin's Gordon notes, however, that this research "is still years away from clinical application...
...plane peered anxiously through an open escape hatch as their aircraft corkscrewed down to the airstrip, on the lookout for rebel rockets. But even such daring trips cannot begin to save the town from starvation. "This amount of food will feed only a fraction of those in need," said Gordon Wagner, the U.S. representative of OXFAM in Juba. He had not eaten in four days. Children scream in agony at the 50 feeding centers in the town. "I fed 900 children," said Daniel Bulla, a Dinka, the emaciated supervisor. "Tomorrow thousands will come, and we will have nothing to give...
STAFF WRITERS: Daniel Benjamin, Gordon Bock, Janice Castro, Howard G. Chua- Eoan, Philip Elmer- DeWitt, Guy D. Garcia, Nancy R. Gibbs, Scott MacLeod, Barbara Rudolph, Michael S. Serrill, Laurence Zuckerman...
...down the $145 billion federal budget deficit. Defense specialist William Kaufmann of Harvard estimates that the military programs already in the acquisition pipeline could cost more than $900 billion -- three times the entire amount the Pentagon will spend this fiscal year. "The B-2 embodies the defense conundrum," says Gordon Adams, director of Washington's Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Defense Budget Project. "Controversial mission, extremely high costs -- all at a time of falling budgets...