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...interviewed food-industry spokesmen and talked to Milwaukee doctors studying heart-disease risk factors such as smoking and job-related stress. Crooks interviewed scientists at universities and medical centers, spoke with teachers participating in a health-improvement scheme and talked to National Institutes of Health researchers about the amazing Pima Indians, who have very low heart-attack rates. Since last year, when she covered the progress of Artificial Heart Recipient Barney Clark for TIME, Crooks has become something of an expert on medical subjects, although her degree from Arizona State in 1977 is in music history. "Medical reporting is exciting...
...spindly jojoba thrives on the arid conditions of the Southwest. Indians of the region, including the Pima and Papago tribes, once used the bean's oily wax as a hair conditioner to protect against the drying effects of sun and wind...
...National Convention, is Mo Udall, 58, who was the Democratic keynoter. Admits Bruce Wright, Udall's campaign manager: "The Republicans smell blood this time." The ten-term Congressman's chief problem is the rapidly shifting political complexion of his district. It includes Tucson, which is part of Pima County. The county normally accounts for about 80% of the district's votes, and its population has soared from 275,000 to 531,885 during Udall's 19 years in Congress. Many of the newcomers are retired people or executives of national firms with branches near Tucson. They...
According to Fell the Pima Indians of the Southwest speak a Semitic tongue acquired from Iberian Punic colonists who came 2500 years ago, and the Zunis of Arizona speak a language derived directly from Libyan, with a vocabulary composed of elements from Coptic, Middle Egyptian, and Nubian...
...have compiled 150 pages of chants from ancient Pima in the American Southeast," Fell said. Fell has proven that the chants, once thought to be undecipherable, are written in pure Iberic and Maghrib, languages prevalent in Spain and Morocco...