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...Ohio's legislature neared its first round of forced retirements last year, 13 of 39 term-limited representatives quit to take jobs in the private sector or in Governor Bob Taft's administration. House speaker Jo Ann Davidson, term-limited herself, had to appoint three finance chairmen in a single year. "You have to run an ongoing orientation throughout the session," she says...
...whine and bitch along the way, your teammates might discard you before you get there. Erik, beneath his beard and quiet demeanor, was both booster and killer. "He was the heart and soul of our team," says Eric Alexander. "The guy's spirit won't let you quit...
...cancer in 1999; more than $3 billion in damages from cigarette maker Philip Morris; in Los Angeles. Boeken's lawyer accused Philip Morris of pushing smoking as "cool" despite its addictiveness, which he measured by recounting that his client had quashed addictions to heroin and alcohol, but couldn't quit smoking...
GOOD IS GOOD As if we needed another reason to exercise, eat well and quit smoking, new research shows that people with high levels of HDL--the "good" cholesterol that can be increased by living right, drinking moderately, perhaps even taking prescription drugs--have a 47% reduced risk of the most common kind of stroke. About 600,000 strokes are suffered in the U.S. each year, making it the country's third leading cause of death...
...detail. But I can't tell you anything from grade school. I drank pretty much any time that I could. I would steal wine from my parents and by the time I was 10 or 11 I was drinking weekly, every other week, daily if I could. My parents quit buying wine, but I had older sisters who visited from college and they would always bring me whatever they had left over. In high school, we either stole alcohol from the liquor store or we found people to buy it for us. Every alcoholic is resourceful...