Word: journalism
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...apparent murder- suicide pact with Caroline Hull, his lover and the widow of another vet, Dean killed himself, Hull and her three children. "We the veterans, widows and children of veterans are a forgotten group," said a suicide note. Coincidentally, a study just published by the New England Journal of Medicine reports that Viet Nam-era veterans are 86% more likely to commit suicide than nonveterans and 53% more likely to die in car crashes. "The casualties of forced military service," write the authors, "may not be limited to those that are counted on the battlefield...
...probably right, according to a continuing study of nearly 17,000 of his fellow Harvard alumni. The report, published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine, demonstrates scientifically what for health enthusiasts has long been an article of faith: regular exercise can indeed prolong life. "People who are active and fit can expect to live a year or so longer than their sedentary counterparts," says the report's principal author, Dr. Ralph Paffenbarger Jr. of the Stanford University School of Medicine. "For each hour of physical activity, you can expect to live that hour over -- and live...
...Journal of the American Medical Association last week, two more reports further underscored the health benefits of exercise, specifically for runners. "It's an old story that running wears out joints," says Dr. Nancy Lane, who directed a Stanford study comparing the joints of 41 long-distance runners with those of 41 nonrunners and occasional runners. The researchers found no difference between the two groups in the prevalence of osteoarthritis, or degenerative joint disease. However, the runners, ages 50 to 72, did have 40% higher bone density than their counterparts in the control group. "Running prevents bone loss," concludes Lane...
Napoleon's young aide-de-camp, General Gaspard Gourgaud, left a journal describing the Emperor's last years on St. Helena, a speck of British territory in the South Atlantic. Gourgaud's entries, unintentionally hilarious, record the great man's stupendous banality after he lost the thing that made him interesting -- his power. "October 21 (1815). I walk with the Emperor in the garden, and we discuss women. He maintains that a young man should not run after them . . . November 5. The Grand Marshal (Montholon) is angry because the Emperor told him he was nothing but a ninny . . . January...
...production techniques used in Johann Gutenberg's print- shop. In Ann Arbor, Mich., UMI Research Press was shipping copies of The Calov Bible of J.S. Bach, which reveals that markings on the pages of the Bible owned by Bach were made by the great composer. And in Washington, the journal Analytical Chemistry was reviewing for publication a report suggesting that the Vinland map, a purportedly pre-Columbian world map once denounced as a counterfeit, may not be fraudulent after...