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Another driving force in the U.S. is the new "demographic imperative." With a rapidly aging population, America has moved its medical focus from treating acute illness to caring for chronic maladies like heart disease and cancer -- a shift that has sent health-care costs skyward. "There's a growing appreciation of the need to find the most economical way to treat and prevent chronic disease," notes Dr. Charles Butterworth Jr. of the University of Alabama. "Food and vitamins are not that expensive." Calculates Tufts' Blumberg: "We could save billions of dollars if we could delay the onset of - chronic diseases...
Since a condor's wings are too large for much flapping, it soars skyward by jumping from its mountaintop nest into an updraft. On the ground, the birds need a spiraling thermal air current to take off. Says the Los Angeles Zoo's Michael Wallace: "I've seen Andean condors walk half a mile for a launch point...
...window, firing a tranquilizer dart into the massive fur-covered rump. Minutes pass. The bear shows no effects. The helicopter drops for a second shot. This time the bear stands its ground, and the pilot, fearing the animal is about to lunge for the aircraft, abruptly noses the chopper skyward. He remembers how a 9-ft. bear once swiped at a helicopter's skids, shredding the pontoons...
...surprise for his three grown children: a 30-year-old fiance. Since this is TV sitcomland, the May-September romance sends his kids into a wisecracking snit. Before dinner one evening, their barbs get so harsh that the fiance, known as TT, scurries into the hallway, casts her eyes skyward and asks for help: "Chief -- Code Blue, Code Blue! I knew they'd be upset, but this is ridiculous...
...thinks the Class of '91 faces long-term job troubles. Their plight is purely a result of recession, and they should easily survive a few months waiting tables or typing memos until other employers start hiring again. Still, as they fling their commencement caps skyward, the graduates will surely be silently urging the economy to follow as fast as possible...