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Cholesterol, the fatty substance that can clog arteries and induce heart attacks, plays a role in 85% of America's 550,000 annual deaths resulting from coronary heart disease. Ridding the bloodstream of the stuff through exercise and proper diet has become a standard health regimen. Last week, however, in a landmark paper in the New England Journal of Medicine, a group of Finnish scientists provided dramatic endorsement for a drug that drastically lowers the incidence of such disease, chiefly by raising the blood levels of a type of cholesterol...
Though estimates vary, at least 7,000 political prisoners are believed to remain in the camps, where they are subjected to a tedious regimen of political indoctrination. Those prisoners, said Radio Hanoi, "are still in the camps because they stubbornly refuse to change their ways...
...contrast to an optimal level of 200 mg -- and by age 44 she had had triple-bypass surgery. She went on a restrictive diet, and her cholesterol level plunged. But her arteries were still choking. Early this year her doctor suggested adding an experimental drug called lovastatin to her regimen. Within four months the magic number was 156 mg. Says Fuller, now 54, of the drug: "I really believe that it's saving my life...
...luck changes when a Clint Eastwood-esque stranger named Gun (Tsutomu Yamazaki) struts into her restaurant. She entreats him to teach her the finer points of noodle cooking. He consents, and puts her on a rigorous training regimen. He assembles, Seven Samurai-style, a group of gourmands to educate her in each different aspect of noodle cooking...
Mike Dukakis thrived under this demanding regimen. At Brookline High he was president of the student council and lettered in three sports: cross country, tennis and -- believe it or not -- basketball. As a senior in 1951, he ran the Boston Marathon and finished 57th. But his brother Stelian had a nervous breakdown while a student at Bates College. "He recovered but never completely. There was always a certain amount of instability there," Dukakis says. "Nevertheless, he was my brother and we were very close, even though at times it was a difficult situation to deal with." Stelian was killed...