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...tragic but isolated" rebuttal has been the industry's mantra as it has tried to stave off government regulators. The argument has worked in the past, in part because there are few national statistics on the frequency of problems at assisted-living facilities. The most comprehensive study, a 1999 survey of assisted living in four states by Congress' General Accounting Office, found that 27% of surveyed facilities had been cited for five or more quality-of-care violations in a two-year period and that 11% had been cited for 10 or more violations. HHS's new national study will...
...stretchers to receive a week's supply. For two patients, the dose came too late. Exhausted from negotiating through the shoving crowd and from the suffocating heat, they died at the stadium. There are millions of AIDS victims around the world who are willing to try anything to stave off that fate?and pay for it, too. But until the Thai government conducts thorough tests, nobody will know for sure what's the value, if any, of Vichai's little pink pills...
...anti-Arroyo demonstrators attacked MalacaNang in May, prompting an unsuccessful coup attempt. There has been criticism of the appointment of her businessman-husband's cronies to key government posts, and a high-profile Senate race that required all of Arroyo's personal charisma to stave off a humiliating defeat for her Peoples' Power Party. "My reaction to all this? I think: 'What must I do next?'" she told TIME in an interview last week. "I don't dwell on my feelings...
...nice to learn that exercising our mental muscles may help stave off Alzheimer's. After we have created a generation of folks who need pocket calculators to balance their checkbooks, computers with spell-check to write letters and cash registers that tell how much change to give back to customers, now you tell us that using our brains is good for us? Duh! TIMOTHY TAYLOR WEBB Redding, Conn...
...also one of the first to suggest a way to stave off Alzheimer's symptoms. "If your brain is already progressing toward Alzheimer's," says Snowdon, "strokes or head trauma [which can produce similar kinds of brain damage] can put you over the edge." His advice: wear a helmet while biking, motorcycling or playing contact sports; buckle your seat belt; and drive a car with air bags. Meanwhile, keep strokes at bay by keeping your cardiovascular system in shape: avoid tobacco, get regular exercise and eat a balanced, healthy diet...