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...always encourage this with the dining hall staff and students eating in the cafeterias...Students should also make sure that they do not share food or drinks with sick roommates and that dirty Kleenex should be disposed of immediately," he said...

Author: By Jordana R. Lewis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Health Services Warns of Flu | 2/10/1999 | See Source »

...world has had 50 years of bitter experience with the failure and sheer destructiveness of nationalization. After World War II, the British Labour Party seized the "commanding heights" of the economy, nationalizing everything big in sight: coal and steel and rails and utilities. By 1980 Britain was the sick man of Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Worst Idea of the Decade | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

...murder rate is down a bit in Bridgeport, but other violent crimes aren't. "There's still a subculture of drugs and guns," says state senator Alvin Penn. "We may develop around it, but that subculture hasn't disappeared." The residents are sick of it. At the funeral, grievers bellowed amens when the Rev. Williams asked the assembled politicians to do more to catch criminals and--here the loudest cheers went up--protect witnesses. Many people here have come to believe that cops abandoned B.J., left him to fend for himself in the same community where the man he would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Silent Testimony | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

...risk of developing breast cancer, says Dr. Barbara Weber, professor of medicine and genetics at the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center in Philadelphia. For example, everyone has heard that 1 in 9 women develop breast cancer. "That doesn't mean you have a 1 in 9 chance of getting sick tomorrow," she notes. It means that over a lifetime of 85 years, 1 out of 9 women will develop breast cancer. But two-thirds of breast-cancer patients die of something else. In fact, heart disease is by far the biggest killer of women in the U.S., followed by lung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radical Surgery | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

Unhealthy health food? Although growers are trying to eliminate the risk of salmonella poisoning from alfalfa sprouts, scientists report it's not so easy. The bacteria, it turns out, may hide in tiny crevices in the seeds. The most susceptible to getting sick: the very young, the elderly and folks with weak immune systems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Health: Jan. 25, 1999 | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

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