Word: low
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...current craze stems from studies showing that oats, particularly oat bran, can have a salutary effect on blood levels of total cholesterol and, even better, of the "bad" type of cholesterol known as LDL (low-density lipoprotein). Researchers have found that consuming 1 1/2 to 3 oz. of oat bran daily for six to eight weeks can lower total cholesterol some 20% and LDLs as much as 25%. "It's great stuff," says Dr. James Anderson of the University of Kentucky, who pioneered the study of oat bran in the 1970s. Anderson estimates that up to 85% of Americans with...
...sound of American slavery is living very quietly on a dark side street in Brunswick, Ga. And a young black composer named Walter Robinson has come a thousand miles to hear it: tones, overtones, agony and all. Call it gospel, or call it the blues. The sound starts low and shades into the sky, leaving behind an ache or sprig of consolation. "That's the sound I want," he says, as he drives toward his destination...
Doug is waiting the next day at his church, a low-slung building the size of a corner gas station, where there's an organ and a clunky, slightly out-of- tune piano. It's a Saturday. Several women are moving around in the kitchen; the small, bare chapel is deserted. Walter plays a quick phrase on the piano and sings the lyric faintly for Doug, and Doug (who does not read music) sends it booming back. Then again, with an altered stress...
...country, the students found themselves setting the pace again. On July 7, Roh attempted to maneuver his administration into a leading role in the reunification drive with proposals aimed at a thaw in relations with Pyongyang, but the government of Kim Il Sung, reluctant to appear upstaged, responded coolly. Low-level talks since then in the peace village of Panmunjom have stalled. Last week Pyongyang formally announced that it would boycott the Olympics...
...midair mishap kills three Italian pilots and at least 47 spectators at a U. S. air base in West Germany, touching off a controversy about low- level flying within NATO. -- After being invited to meet with authorities, Poland' s Lech Walesa calls for striking workers to return to their jobs. -- A prosperous and newly democratized South Korea gets set to play host to the Olympics...