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...medical science known as epidemiology--that doctors discovered the link between smoking and lung cancer, between cholesterol and heart disease, between salt and high blood pressure. Epidemiology also led to the understanding that cooked tomatoes may help protect against prostate cancer, and that fruits and vegetables tend to stave off cancers of all sorts...
...McVeigh die. The execution will be shown live via closed-circuit television to a group of several hundred survivors and victims' family members gathered in Oklahoma City. The transmission and those who watch it will be carefully monitored (even cell phones will not be permitted) in an attempt to stave off entrepreneurs intent on hijacking the signal. Only those considered by the U.S. Justice Department to have a specific interest in McVeigh's death will be permitted to view the execution itself. We'll hear all about it on the news, of course, but the grisly final moments are reserved...
...Alzheimer's patient's own cells be used to stave off the ravages of her disease? It sounds fantastical, but doctors in California are setting out to answer that very question...
...pick a maximum of two or three events per 24-hour party cycle and hope that those chosen soirées will yield moments that reflect the industry's celebrations. You might not be at the Vanity Fair party at the precise moment when Russell Crowe finally encounters Stave Martin and "thanks" him for his crack about him hitting on Ellen Burstyn, but you hope to encounter enough pieces of the Hollywood jigsaw puzzle to at least assemble part of the picture...
...sectors--agriculture, transportation, construction and thousands of small businesses around the country--have escaped attempts to weed out the weak. If the banks start calling in their bad loans, companies from these sectors would be first in line, so it has been in the interest of the L.D.P. to stave off such a day of reckoning. "Say there are five companies in one industry," says Yasuhisa Shiozaki, a reform-minded L.D.P. lawmaker. "Government interference makes them all as unproductive as the weakest one of the five." It does that with direct subsidies, by shielding them from imports...