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...study, which was published in yesterday's edition of the New England Journal of Medicine, says one in three non-smoking women who are stricken with cancer develop the disease due, at least in part, to extra weight...
...creepy old house, his cautious tread accompanied by a few high-pitched notes in the violins, pregnant with mystery and menace. As he reaches the landing, a door flies open in a glint of flashing steel: suddenly the strings shriek rhythmically, as the knife blade slashes down and the stricken cop topples backward to his death in a symphony of pizzicato cellos and basses. We not only see his death; we hear it as well...
Testifying before the Senate Whitewater panel, former Clinton Advisor David Gergen recalled that the President was "grief-stricken" upon learning of the suicide of his childhood friend Vincent Foster. Former White House chief of staff Thomas "Mack" McLarty told the committee the President was not informed of Foster's suicide note when it was found almost a week after his death...
Convinced that he had Lyme disease, Quinn dragged himself to the Westchester County Medical Center. After examining him, however, doctors concluded that Quinn didn't have Lyme disease at all. Instead he had contracted human granulocytic Ehrlichiosis, or HGE -- a newly discovered tick-borne disease that has stricken at least 90 people in New York, Minnesota, Wisconsin and a few other states since 1990, resulting in four deaths. The infection is caused by the Ehrlichia bacterium, a distant cousin of the microbe responsible for Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Fortunately, Quinn had gone to specialists who recognized the infection and cured...
Regardless of how the suit is resolved, the clear loser will be Tepperman's stricken wife, the victim of an equal-opportunity disease that shows no regard for bottom lines or other totems of corporate life. The winners, of course, are those who enjoy the intoxicating spectacle of millionaires and billionaires wallowing in the mud. The trial is expected to last a month...