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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...method of advancing scientific research is to send spacecraft without astronauts off into different parts of the solar system, in a manner similar to the Voyager spacecraft. Because these spacecraft are inherently much less expensive, less complex and less risky than human-occupied craft, they provide more scientific returns per dollar investment...
...reinforced by four new studies presented at the American Heart Association's annual meeting in Washington last month. They confirmed earlier research indicating that low levels of HDL can result in heart disease -- even in individuals whose total cholesterol count is in the supposedly "safe" zone below 200 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dl) of blood...
CAPTION: Prime Rate % per year...
...ways a typical American town. Perhaps too typical. A survey last spring found that almost 70% of the Wellsburg area's 11,000 residents were at risk for heart disease. "I was just shocked that my cholesterol was that high," says Kitty Weidner, 75, whose reading was 241 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dl) of blood. Admits store owner Tom Zurbuch, 46, a former junk- food junkie whose cholesterol level was about 265: "Apparently, we haven't been eating right...
HERE'S a prediction: the first legislative defeat that the new Congress will deal to President-elect George Bush will be an increase in the national minimum wage. Ronald Reagan successfully fought attempts to raise the wage floor, which has languished at $3.35 per hour since 1981, but Bush will not be able to resist the tide...