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...Take heart ?- a new study of alcohol?s affect on the ol? ticker says that when it comes to reaping the benefits of moderate drinking, any booze will do. The study, from researchers at Harvard Medical School and published in the American Heart Association's journal, Circulation, is the largest to date: 21,537 men over a 12-year period. It follows much debate about the so-called French Paradox, the contention that the consumption of red wine - thought to contain anti-fat ingredients other than those found in alcohol - was responsible for relatively low rates of heart disease among...
...overwhelming majority, is moving quickly to consolidate control of his nation?s political institutions, and from there to use the nation?s considerable oil revenues to finance populist spending. This may sound merely like some improbable '60s flashback, but Venezuela?s state-owned oil company is the largest oil supplier to the U.S., and that ?- together with Chavez?s attempts to breathe new life into the decrepit international oil cartel, OPEC ?- could spell trouble for American consumers...
...exactly College Bowl. (Sample question: Where did Monica buy her blue dress?) Perhaps because of this, the 13-episode ABC program is enthralling viewers, but occasionally it dismays geography fans. On a show last week, host Regis Philbin asked which of the Great Lakes, excluding Superior, has the largest area. Contestant David Honea suggested Lake Huron. Philbin's TelePrompTer suggested Lake Michigan, and the voluble host sent Honea packing. After the show, Honea politely asked producers to double-check. Guess who was right? ABC has invited Honea back for the show's final broadcast to continue his quest...
...many with their bare hands." That sense of community may be essential to managing the fallout from the disaster, and to the economic reconstruction that will follow. Whatever lessons are learned in managing the present disaster may well be tested again some time in the future. The country's largest city, Istanbul, whose population has doubled every 10 years since 1955, sits along a fault line and has long been warned to expect a devastating earthquake. "As bad as last week?s earthquake was," says Finkel, "experts agree that it wasn?t the ?big one? that Istanbul?s been warned...
...Pays" was never more true than Wednesday, when the nation's second-largest life insurer agreed to pay a megamillion-dollar settlement of lawsuits accusing the company of deceptive sales practices. Pending a federal judge's approval, Metropolitan Life says it will distribute $1.7 billion to some 7 million people who bought insurance and annuities between 1982 and 1997. This agreement will take care of a collection of class-action suits brought by the feds and private citizens, and is the latest in a long line of settlements by large insurers over questionable sales tactics. Example: "churning," in which...