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Gary Pokodner of Annapolis, Md., gets paid to vacation. Pokodner, an electrical engineer, stays at four-star hotels for free, eats steak dinners gratis and goes on casino sprees totally on the house. For his trouble, he makes $20,000 a year in his spare time. How does he do it? Pokodner, 44, is a veteran secret shopper, employed by cruise lines and hotel chains to travel undercover and evaluate their customer service...
...Lawrence Cheskin of the Johns Hopkins Weight Management Center in Baltimore, Md., has concluded something similar. The patients who visit his clinic have an average BMI of 37--moderately to severely obese. Yet only about 30% of them have hypertension, and only 20% have diabetes. While he doesn't speculate about what's behind the low diabetes numbers, physical activity does appear to play a major role in keeping blood pressure in check. "Generally, the health benefits of fitness are cardiovascular," Cheskin says...
...Koreans do next? Hwang met last week with Scotland's Ian Wilmut, Dolly's cloner, who wants to work with the South Koreans on Lou Gehrig's disease. Similar collaborations are under way at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City and at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, Md. By the end of last week, however, Hwang was back at his lab in Seoul, putting even more distance between himself and the rest of the scientific world...
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...conclusion could be reached. The situation was even more frustrating for patients in a second trial. There, scientists did indeed find a lower recurrence of colon tumors in patients taking Vioxx. "There was a reduction in adenoma recurrence," notes the study's lead author, Dr. Robert Bresalier of MD Anderson Cancer Center. "How that balances with the potential risk remains to be seen...