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...highest-ranking black in the Bush Administration, warns African Americans not to exaggerate the effects of poverty and bias on their health. Says he: "The top 10 causes of premature death in our nation are significantly influenced by personal behavior and life-style choices." Sullivan has exhorted blacks to quit smoking, cut down on drinking and lose weight. Such personal initiative, he claims, "could eliminate up to 45% of deaths from cardiovascular disease, 23% of deaths from cancer and more than 50% of the disabling complications of diabetes...
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...have been turning the lives of midlevel managers and other white- collar workers upside down. Bruce Deberry, 38, earned $60,000 a year in 1989 as a project manager for Digital Equipment Corp. while living comfortably in the university town of Durham, N.H. Sensing that layoffs were imminent, Deberry quit to get a jump on changing jobs. But he has found only short-term consulting work and has earned just $10,000 so far this year. He now faces bankruptcy and foreclosure on his home. "The worst part is the feeling that I'm all washed up at 38," Deberry...
...Gorbachev's decision to quit the party had the smell of desperation; it is certain to have no impact on the accelerated breakup of the Union and does little to burnish the Soviet leader's credentials as a front-rank reformer. "It would have been greatly to his advantage had he done this a year ago," said Eduard Shevardnadze, a former Gorbachev ally who angrily resigned as Foreign Minister last December and quit the party in July. "But now? It is too late...