Word: paper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that stamped these small stories into history has been whisked away to oblivion. A couple of muscular men from Kansas City, Mo., came through the print shop of the Adair County Free Press and wrenched out the press, hauling it off to a printing plant in Princeton, Ill. The paper will now be printed on a similar press 20 miles down the road and delivered to Greenfield by van--another change in the constantly shifting economic tides of the prairies. Change so inevitable...
...those distant Wednesday nights,when it was the turn of our press to sing, I would climb up on the pressman's platform, and for a moment or two my small perch became Olympus. I would riffle the paper in place on the feedboard and then punch the first power button to stir the dead weight of the steel and lead. The press would groan and move and finally plunge back and forth like a stallion in harness, air cylinders hissing and gasping as they cushioned each surge. I would stand a few seconds absorbing the rumble and relishing...
When the run was over, the small staff would quiet the press and lift off the lead pages in their steel chases and throw the Linotype slugs into scoops to be reused. There would be quiet talk about the stories in the paper. In the drought years, we wondered if rain would ever come again. In the war years, we marveled at how quickly friends had been shipped around the world to distant battlefields, with only bits and pieces of their censored, yearning letters printed each week...
...sickly hearts and premature deaths, was elevated levels of an amino acid called homocysteine. The patients were part of a study, published in the current issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, that shows an almost lockstep correlation between high homocysteine levels and coronary-disease mortality. And that paper follows more than 50 less publicized studies since 1992 suggesting similar connections...
Superficially, at least, the New England Journal paper appears to confirm this. The study, conducted at Haukeland University Hospital in Bergen, Norway, surveyed 587 people with a history of heart trouble. The 64 who died during the course of the research were among those with the highest levels of homocysteine in their blood. Overall, the research suggested, people with elevated homocysteine are 4 1/2 times as likely to die of heart disease as those with normal levels...