Word: specialist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Americans got a reminder last week that some war zones are more lethal than others. After seven months in the Persian Gulf with a Patriot missile battery, Army Specialist Anthony Riggs, 22, won a two-week furlough. Back home less than 24 hours, Riggs was helping his wife load a car and rented van to move out of a crack-infested neighborhood in northeast Detroit to an apartment in the safer suburbs. Someone took a fancy to Riggs' 1989 Nissan Sentra, pumped five shots into the soldier and sped...
...that overweight workers drive up medical costs. Says U-Haul International spokesperson Melora Felts Foley: "The people who are responsible for the majority of skyrocketing health costs are those who use tobacco and those who have weight problems." But some health experts disagree. Says Dr. Albert Stunkard, an obesity specialist at the University of Pennsylvania: "The extent to which overweight people have difficulty in obtaining work goes far beyond what can be justified by medical data and must be due to discrimination." American's new standards may help tip the scales in favor of equal opportunities...
...Specialists offer a host of recommendations for warding off the weight. "Just making people aware that nicotine withdrawal may lead to an increase in their appetite is often enough to prevent them from putting on the pounds," says Chicago internist Robert Gluckman, an obesity specialist. Chewing nicotine gum to cut down the physical withdrawal from the addiction is also often advised, as is engaging in some form of aerobic exercise to help push up the metabolic rate. To satisfy the craving for sweets, Grunberg suggests, quitters should sprinkle everything, from meat to poultry to fruit, with a sugar substitute...
Says Graham Fuller, a Middle East specialist with the CIA during the 1980s: "There was a genuine visceral fear of Islam in Washington as a force that was utterly alien to American thinking, and that really scared us. Senior people at the Pentagon and elsewhere were much more concerned about Islam than communism. It was an almost obsessive fear, leading to a mentality on our part that you should use any stick to beat a dog -- to stop the advance of Islamic fundamentalism." That stick was to be Iraq...
...Very Best was produced by Andrew Solt, a TV-documentary specialist who spent a year negotiating the rights to 1,087 hours of taped broadcasts from the host's son-in-law and former producer, Robert Precht. (Sullivan died of cancer in 1974.) Solt is editing the shows into 130 half-hour segments, which he plans to offer for syndication, package as home videos and use as the basis for future TV specials...