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Headline: NOTEBOOKBy Charlotte Faltermayer, Janice M. Horowitz, John Manners, J.F.O. McAllister, VERBATIM"From what I know, their minds aren't what they used to be ...
If they don't give up, I say go in and strafe 'em ... Bring in
the Apache helicopters and blow the hell out of them. I'm tired
of it." "The English have 11 million mad cows, and Cambodia has roughly
the same number of equally mad land mines. Surely the solution
to Cambodia's mine problem is here before our very eyes." "What is killing us is having to teach them to read, compute ...
and to think." "I now pronounce you domestic partners ... You may now
consummate the relationship." HIGH AND LOW FASHIONWINNERSDONATELLA VERSACE FAMOUS PEOPLE'S DAUGHTERS THE GAP & LOSERSDONNA KARAN MODELS WHO WANT TO ACT '70S HATERS TABOO TATTOOSFor more than a century the Marine Corps' traditional eagle, globe and anchor tattoo has been rippling across the biceps and backs of Leathernecks. But lately, too many recruits are festooned with adornments too tasteless for even hardy jarheads. One Marine wannabe's temple, for example, bore tattoos of bullet holes with blood oozing from them (he didn't get in). Another recruit sported a naked woman (he was barred until he had a bathing suit tattooed upon her). Recruiters are forwarding snapshots of dubious tattoos to senior officers for their approval before the wearers are allowed into the Marines. The issue took a serious turn following the March 5 murder of a Marine lieutenant colonel at Camp Pendleton, California, allegedly by a sergeant under his command. The suspect has a tattooed teardrop coming out of the corner of his left eye, which may be a gang symbol. Under current Marine regulations, though, a teardrop is perfectly unobjectionable. That is expected to change. A corps panel is codifying the rules for just what types of tattoos will pass Marine muster. WASHINGTON: PIG HEAVEN
HEALTH REPORTTHE GOOD NEWSPreliminary reports suggest Advil, Motrin and Nuprin--all pain relievers containing ibuprofen--may reduce the risk of developing ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE 30% to 60%. The drugs may help fight off excessive deposits of certain proteins in the brain linked to the disease. Aspirin and acetaminophen do not seem to have the same effect. The catastrophic brain damage that can occur with a STROKE may be prevented with a powerful new medication called citicoline. In a study, citicoline appeared to help injured membranes repair themselves. A major five-year study concludes that people who have had a heart attack may reduce their risk of dying from heart disease or suffering another attack if they go on CHOLESTEROL-LOWERING DRUGS--even if their cholesterol levels are normal. THE BAD NEWSYoung adults are boozing it up: 1 in 5 surveyed admitted to BINGE DRINKING; 1 in 5 also owned up to occasionally driving while drunk. Drunk driving--and liver disease--should be enough to deter people from alcohol. Research on rats indicates that even one binge may raise the risk that undiagnosed cancer cells will spread. Rats injected with ALCOHOL AND CANCER cells grew more tumors than abstemious ones. Owing mostly to mammography, the number of women diagnosed with tiny, noninvasive tumors in the breast's milk duct has quadrupled since 1983. As many of these tumors never spread dangerously beyond the duct, researchers are concerned that women who opt for a MASTECTOMY may be undergoing unnecessarily radical surgery. Sources-- LOCAL HEROESDELORES F. ADAMS, 63; INCLINE VILLAGE, NEV.; retired nurse When Adams won $9.3 million at the slots in Reno in 1992, giving was first on her mind. Initially, she helped her husband, two sons, six sisters and three brothers. Then she donated pews and stained-glass windows to her childhood church in Alabama. Today she funds three $1,000 college scholarships each year and contributes to numerous academic and medical-research organizations. "Anything I've had I've always shared," says Adams. "Now I can share money, too." JIM STOVALL, 38; TULSA, OKLA.; Narrative Television Network The film buff learned he was going blind at 17 and completely lost his sight by 29. He found his favorite films, like The Big Sleep with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, difficult to enjoy. "Even though I had seen it a number of times, I couldn't follow the end." In 1988 Stovall, the author of You Don't Have to Be Blind to See, started NTN to narrate TV and movie classics for an audience that could no longer see them. Today the Emmy Award--winning network reaches 25 million homes in the U.S. 30 YEARS AGO IN TIMEThe Missing GodA controversial exploration of the existence of God: "Soren
Kierkegaard warned that 'the day when Christianity and the world
become friends, Christianity is done away with.' During World
War II, the anti-Nazi Lutheran martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote
prophetically to a friend from his Berlin prison cell: 'We are
proceeding toward a time of no religion at all.' For many, that
time has arrived . 'Personally, I've never been confronted with
the question of God,' says one ... politely indifferent atheist,
Dr. Claude Levi-Strauss, professor of social anthropology at the
College de France. 'I find it's perfectly possible to spend my
life knowing that we will never explain the universe.' Jesuit
Theologian John Courtney Murray points to ... the atheism of
distraction, people who are just 'too damn busy' to worry about
God at all." QUOTESBRING BACK THE EMPIRE"It is Russia's historic fate that it cannot exist on any other
scale." FORGOTTEN LORE"NFL fans are educated and will pick up the connection to Poe." GIVE ME THAT OLD- WORLD RELIGION"I tell everyone I'm the closest Baptist you'll ever get to a
Jesuit." More Back In TIME |
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