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...have just discovered that my hearing is compromised, red spots are beginning to decorate my parched skin, and now Cindy Moore, the clinic's dietitian, informs my that my total cholesterol is too high. It has jumped to 222 from the previous year's 195. Cholesterol, the fatty substance crucial to cell functioning, contributes to atherosclerosis, a narrowing of the arteries, which is a major cause of heart disease. My level is not alarmingly high, but vascular disease is rampant among males in my family, resulting in generations of heart attack and stroke...
...from a position of strength inside the club and persuade other members to save the planet from a nuclear holocaust. India can initiate the disarmament process by destroying some of its nuclear arsenal in the presence of other members of the club. This could galvanize world public opinion for total elimination of atomic weapons. SUDHANGSHU B. KARMAKAR Piscataway...
Although the number of new cases of Lyme seemed to have peaked in the U.S. at 16,000 in 1996, public health officials are warning that this year's total could soar. Since the first mysterious outbreak of arthritis-like pain and fever among residents near the Connecticut community of Lyme in 1975, at least 100,000 Americans have been infected with the disease. Now endemic throughout the Northeast as well as parts of the Midwest and the West Coast, Lyme disease is caused by a corkscrew-shaped bacterium called Borrelia burgdorferi. It is spread by the bite of ticks...
...smoke, my blood pressure is good, I eat a low-fat diet, and I get plenty of exercise. While my grandfather had a heart attack at 60, he lived to be 86. And my father, now 75, hasn't had any cardiac problems at all. My total cholesterol is just a little high at 200. My only real risk factor is (deep sigh) age: a few months from now, I'll turn 45, which, the experts say, pushes the danger up a notch. But I can't do much about that...
...Picasso dominated Western art in the 20th century is, by now, the merest commonplace. Before his 50th birthday, the little Spaniard from Malaga had become the very prototype of the modern artist as public figure. No painter before him had had a mass audience in his own lifetime. The total public for Titian in the 16th century or Velazquez in the 17th was probably no more than a few thousand people--though that included most of the crowned heads, nobility and intelligentsia of Europe. Picasso's audience--meaning people who had heard of him and seen his work, at least...