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...wouldn't be such a big deal if the problem were simply aesthetic. But excess poundage takes a terrible toll on the human body, significantly increasing the risk of heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke, diabetes, infertility, gall-bladder disease, osteoarthritis and many forms of cancer. The total medical tab for illnesses related to obesity is $117 billion a year--and climbing--according to the Surgeon General, and the Journal of the American Medical Association reported in March that poor diet and physical inactivity could soon overtake tobacco as the leading cause of preventable death in the U.S. And again...
...subsidiary KBR are targets in the political battle at home, but their drivers, men culled from the ranks of the desperate from Texas to New Hampshire, are taking real fire on the ground. Easter-week attacks on KBR's fuel convoys left four dead, bringing the company's death toll to 35, the majority of them drivers. Two drivers remain missing. Another, Thomas Hamill, escaped from his Iraqi captors and returned home to a hero's welcome. Hundreds more drivers have quit early and come back...
Asia's War with Heart Disease Having spent all my savings on my mother's three-stent angioplasty, I recognize the timeliness of your warnings about the rising death toll from cardiovascular disease [May 10]. As an heir apparent to heart trouble, I have taken a cue from this article and have started working seriously on my diet and on controlling diabetes and hypertension. In addition, your story made me quit smoking-something I've been trying to do for years! K. Chidanand Kumar Bangalore, India...
...side of us, and splinters of the boat, equipment and bodies were thrown into the air. Bullets were passing through the thin wooden sides of our vessel. The ramp was lowered, and the inner door was opened. A German machine gun trained on the opening took a heavy toll of lives. Many of my 30 buddies went down as they left...
...findings were to show a fundamental design or construction failure, then we'd have to tear it down and start again." Some experts predict that worst-case scenario won't come about - and also note ADP's good luck: the disaster struck shortly before 7 a.m., limiting a death toll that otherwise might have been in the hundreds. Others suggested the crash might prevent the airport from servicing the new superjumbo Airbus A380 when deliveries begin in 2006, or that it might even imperil Airbus' entire A380 project. That seems farfetched, since de Gaulle (like Frankfurt and Heathrow, which will...