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Super Tuesday on CNN, David Duke, when asked if he was disappointed that he did so poorly in Louisiana, replied that he felt pleased that so many of "my issues," as he called them, are being talked about by other candidates...
Supporters of this theory speculate that antioxidants may one day revolutionize health care. Biochemist William Pryor, director of the Biodynamics Institute at Louisiana State University, foresees screening people through a simple urine, blood or breath test to assess how much damage free radicals have done to tissue, much as patients today are screened for high cholesterol. "If you can predict who is most susceptible to oxidative stress," notes Pryor, "you can treat them with antioxidants more effectively." Ultimately, says biochemist Bruce Ames at the University of California, Berkeley, "we're going to be able to get people to live...
...flight from Manhattan to Louisiana, Rory Cade recounts a family history that echoes the turbulent events of the '60s. The slow poison of the title is ( booze; it is also the ecstasy of love. Both are the straight stuff that delivers Rory's father to hell. After the mother of his three young daughters dies, he marries Aimee Desiree, a wild Creole beauty half his age. The marriage -- and the faithless Aimee Desiree -- is doomed. She meets her fate at 3 a.m. in a white Thunderbird hurtling along a narrow causeway across Lake Pontchartrain. The daughters never hear their father...
...much: he has propelled himself out of the Crossfire thunderdome and into the first tier of G.O.P. hopefuls for 1996. He has jerked a nervous President hard to starboard and roused the Bush-Quayle campaign from groggy complacency. And he has singlehandedly destroyed the incipient threat Bush faced from Louisiana's David Duke. Not bad for 13 weeks' work...
...price slide has been a roundhouse punch to the big energy states of Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and New Mexico, still struggling to climb back from the earlier debacle. Scores of wildcatters, who find most of the domestic crude and who went after gas when the market fell apart, have folded in the past 18 months...