Word: normale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Studies have shown that obese people have three times the normal incidence of high blood pressure and diabetes, an increased risk of heart disease, a shorter life-span, and an unusually high risk of developing respiratory disorders, arthritis and certain types of cancer. A severely obese woman, for example, has five times the normal risk of developing cancer of the uterine lining and a heightened risk of breast and cervical cancers. Men who are significantly overweight have an increased chance of developing malignancies of the colon, rectum and prostate...
Denmark's center is basically a medical clinic, but in Toronto there are 20 volunteers who conduct research and guide victims to normal lives in the community. This includes helping them find jobs and homes and standing by to assist with advice on everything from eating to functioning in a new society...
Referral to the Toronto center comes from community groups and immigration lawyers. But many survivors still enter countries as normal aliens. One Afghan woman, admitted to a Montreal hospital last year and treated for kidney infection and hysteria, was not identified as a torture victim for months. There are problems of language and culture, says Cowgill, and few doctors recognize the signs of torture. Many patients also are tight-lipped about their ordeals...
...parts of the departments of Justice and Defense. To control a population it can no longer inspire, the Kremlin relies upon security police and informers. To obtain military secrets and advanced technology it cannot develop efficiently at home, it employs espionage abroad. To subvert governments it cannot persuade through normal interaction, the U.S.S.R. has fielded a secret army--of mercenaries as well as Soviets--to advance its international goals...
...companions and 50 journalists stepped off Northwest Airlines Flight 191 at Kimpo International Airport, they were met by about 50 security guards who tried to whisk Kim away. He refused to go along. He feared for his safety, he said, and preferred to proceed through normal immigration channels. After a heated discussion, the guards slammed Kim into an elevator and took him into custody. Several protesting Americans were shoved and punched. Among them: Democratic Congressmen Edward Feighan of Ohio and Thomas Foglietta of Pennsylvania, and Patt Derian, Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights in the Carter Administration. Said Foglietta...