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Slowed recovery has a profound impact when it comes to illness. With advancing years, bones take longer to knit, wounds to heal and infections to clear up. Ultimately, says Cassel, the difference is that a "healthy young person can lose a lung, a kidney and do fine. And so too an old person can be doing fine, but then he has a stroke, a heart attack, whatever. Because of the stress, it's much more likely that all the major organs will go one after the other...
Editor in Chief Roger Straus Jr. and his closely knit family of editors and writers have had quite a year. Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities is currently No. 1 on the best-seller lists. Scott Turow's Presumed Innocent, a summer smash, is No. 3. Earlier in the year Walker Percy's The Thanatos Syndrome and Philip Roth's The Counterlife held positions on the lists. The National Book Critics Circle named The Counterlife the best novel of 1987. In addition, the N.B.C.C. award for poetry went to C.K. Williams for Flesh and Blood, and another Farrar...
...rebel statement was issued shortly before the arrival in Islamabad of U.N. Under Secretary-General Diego Cordovez, who has mediated at the previous eleven rounds of Geneva talks between the Afghan and Pakistani governments. Yunis Khalis, chairman of the loosely knit alliance of seven mujahedin groups, refused to meet Cordovez. He accused the U.N. official of presiding over negotiations designed "to recognize the Kabul puppet government" and demanded that Moscow bargain directly with the rebels...
...cabin with smoke curling from its chimney, the small schoolhouse, granary and workshop might serve as a setting for the Walton family. The 2 1/ 2-acre Singer compound in tiny Marion, Utah (pop. 200), speaks of simplicity and family ties. The family is indeed close-knit: Vickie Singer's son-in-law Addam Swapp is married to both her daughters...
...have a very close-knit team," Sweetser said. "Swimming takes up a lot of time and the training is really hard. You are so tired that you tend to gravitate toward others in the same position...