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...revolutionize health care. Biochemist William Pryor, director of the Biodynamics Institute at Louisiana State University, foresees screening people through a simple urine, blood or breath test to assess how much damage free radicals have done to tissue, much as patients today are screened for high cholesterol. "If you can predict who is most susceptible to oxidative stress," notes Pryor, "you can treat them with antioxidants more effectively." Ultimately, says biochemist Bruce Ames at the University of California, Berkeley, "we're going to be able to get people to live a lot longer than anyone thinks...
...have been building for years and will take years to dispel. "The restructuring of corporations, heavy debt loads and the perceived lack of leadership have been bothering the consumer, and a lot of this hasn't changed much yet," says Donald Ratajczak, an economist at Georgia State. Forecasters thus predict an anemic 1.5% growth rate for 1992, far below the robust 5.5% average for the first year of past turnarounds. Such sluggishness would scarcely reduce unemployment, which stands at 7.3% and could climb even higher as the Pentagon demobilizes the armed forces and slashes military contracts...
...capacity as a film critic I am contacted by motion-picture companies . . . to take an early look at sometimes a rough cut of a motion picture they are planning to release and to give them an advance indication of what my reaction would be and to attempt to predict how that motion picture will perform with the mass audience...
...Anyone who knows baseball knows that it is one of the most difficult games to predict," Hogan said...
...most of the Gambino crime operations could function even with a leadership vacuum at the top. The trouble will start if the family becomes involved in disputes with other Mob families about dividing the take in shared territory, such as construction or private trash carting. Some organized-crime experts predict that Gotti could meet the same fate as Castellano -- a Mob assassination -- if he ever goes free. The same goes for Gravano. By breaking the sacred code of omerta, or silence, he has committed a capital crime in the eyes of his Mafia brothers. "This is a guy who lived...