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...their risk of developing heart disease. Teens are cutting back on tobacco, but 18% of senior high school boys and 21% of senior girls still smoke one or more cigarettes every day. Warns Dr. Kenneth Cooper, founder of Dallas' Aerobics Center: "What's happening to our kids now will reap adverse effects in ten to 15 years...
...advanced age and bad health": General Secretary Truong Chinh, 79, Premier Pham Van Dong, 80, and veteran Politburo Member Le Duc Tho, 76. They are among the last members of the generation of leaders that defeated the French and the Americans on the battlefield. But they failed to reap the benefits of peace, leaving behind a legacy of 800% inflation, widespread unemployment and chronic shortages...
They can do that now. But the picture may change in January when the Democrats reap the results of the 1986 election and take control of the Senate, and with it, the leadership of the Iran-Contra investigation...
Merchants are proud of their awards--and oftheir products-- and they say patient efforts arebeginning to reap benefits...
...problem facing inner-city youths, however, has been that they seem to reap little of the economic benefit even when the job market is expanding. Congressman Jack Kemp, a Republican from upstate New York, is a leading advocate of urban enterprise zones, which would use tax incentives to encourage businesses to provide jobs in depressed urban areas. Others feel that it is necessary to create work programs that will draw young blacks away from the inner cities, where the underclass culture makes it extremely difficult to break out of the poverty cycle. Nicholas Lemann, a journalist with the Atlantic, describes...