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...them lunch''); jury consultants, $50,000; computer support; and a thorough investigation of the crime. Although there was no physical evidence linking him to the murder, in August 1994, after a two-week trial, Bertsch was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment. Now 63, he sits in the Pima County Jail listening to the Simpson trial on a small radio. "I think you get all the justice you can afford," he says. "I'm not bitter, but the legal system is flawed...
...weight. But not many succeed. Even more than Type I, Type II diabetes appears to run in families. If both parents develop the disease before middle adulthood, the chance a child will contract it runs close to 80%. Diabetes is endemic among many American Indian tribes, notably the Pima Indians of southern Arizona, who have the highest incidence of Type II diabetes in the world (50% of those over...
Jackson also scored well in parts of Pima County, which includes Tucson. He won the rural counties of Apache and Coconino, while Dukakis took the other 11 rural counties...
...team from the National Institutes of Health found a link between low metabolism rates and excessive weight gain over a period of several years. Their subjects were 171 Pima Indians in Arizona, a tribe in which two-thirds of the women and half the men are obese. Though there were variations among individuals, researchers generally found that the slower the metabolism, the greater the weight gain. Yet after a gain of between 20 lbs. and 45 lbs., % metabolism rates changed, rising to a new level...
...duds for her five-year-old son Brandon. Joel Stillman, 38, and his wife Renee, 38, of suburban Detroit spent $800 on smart-looking ski outfits and equipment for their son Jonathon, 11, and daughter Sara, 8. Karen Topalian, 40, bought her daughter Kendra, almost 2, a $120 yellow pima cotton frock. Says Topalian, who lives in Cohasset, Mass.: "I love my children to look nice...