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...unusual and little known military forces in the world. The National Liberation Army (N.L.A.) of Iran is 30,000 strong, fully armored and ready at any moment to do battle. Some 35% of its soldiers are women, as are 70% of its officers. The troops wear no insignia of rank, live communally and receive no pay. They have taken a vow to remain celibate until Iran is freed. And all express near fanatical loyalty to the woman they hope to install as the next President of Iran: Maryam Rajavi...
...assessment is crucial because there is no average woman. "Individuals have individual risk factors," explains Col. High cholesterol, which increases the risk of heart disease, may have to be weighed against a mother who died of breast cancer. Col's model, based on data from hundreds of studies, helps rank all these factors. Among other things, it shows that women who at age 50 are already at highest risk of breast cancer and lowest risk of heart disease clearly do not benefit from HRT. Other women could extend their life expectancy from three months to three years...
...believe that you will one day be an angel, a bull in Wyoming or the captain of the Starship Hale-Bopp. In 1944 the court ruled that the free exercise of religion "embraces the right to maintain theories of life and of death and of the hereafter which are rank heresy to followers of the orthodox faiths." By that definition, just about anything goes. In the Encyclopedia of American Religions, J. Gordon Melton lists more than 2,100 religions. Herewith, a few of the more unorthodox ones--all of which, by the way, are tax exempt...
Once the 1997 women's lacrosse season is said and done, yesterday's game will rank as one of the most disappointing...
Into most American lives a managed-care plan will someday come--along with voluminous and bewildering packets of information supposedly designed to let the patients know what sort of health care they can expect. But how to choose? Some organizations, and even some popular magazines, have attempted to rank the HMOs, but their various methods of scoring are at cross-purposes--and may have little to do with the quality of care. For starters, some HMOs have simply declined to participate in these surveys or submit to the accreditation process established by the nonprofit National Committee for Quality Assurance. Moreover...