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...Scranton said that while some previous studies had found an association between statins and bone fractures, others...
...this study’s large subject pool allowed Scranton to discard many subjects who might have confounded the study’s results, including patients who had previously received prescriptions for cholesterol-lowering medication and those who had fractured a bone within their first month in the health care system...
DIED. James H. ("Sleepy Jim") Crowley, 83, last of the great "Four Horsemen" backfield that led Notre Dame to a 19-1 record in the 1923-24 seasons; in Scranton, Pa. The small (160 lbs.), swift Crowley was immortalized with his teammates by Sportswriter Grantland Rice: "Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they are known as Famine, Pestilence, Destruction and Death. These are only aliases. Their real names are Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden...
Casey, a successful lawyer who made a name for himself as a corruption-fighting auditor general in the early '70s, lost three previous attempts for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Ironically, Scranton's father, a popular Governor from 1963 to 1967, once urged Casey to switch parties and run for Governor as a Republican. "I am more in the mainstream of Pennsylvania," Casey says. Playing on Scranton's quirky past, he adds: "I really don't know what his political philosophy is. To go from George McGovern to Ronald Reagan defies definition." Casey's commercials lampoon Scranton's poor attendance record...
...Scranton paints Casey as an agent of the status quo, a believer in old, failed Democratic programs. "I think there is an appetite out there for an activist, for a progressive," says the young Republican. "The problem with the Democrats is that their activism is 20 years out of date." But with the drug war emerging as an issue this year, Scranton has been hurt in recent weeks by his record of using "recreational drugs" like marijuana back in his counterculture days. Scranton's early twelve-point lead has vanished, and Bob Casey may just overcome his patrician townsman. MICHIGAN...