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...arrest is expected to have a negligible effect on the election, but Gore has used Bush's Social Security gaffe--which Bush aides have defended as being taken out of context--to question Bush's experience and credibility...
...University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, predicts that doctors will be much more aggressive in their use of such preventive strategies in the next year or two. "Statins are one therapy; ACE inhibitors are another," he says. "There are pretty powerful data that medical therapy can arrest the progression of coronary disease and atherosclerosis and cut down on cardiac events." As always, the art of medicine is in taking that information and figuring out who will benefit most...
...treatment facility that had been his court-ordered residence since June, just before a scheduled trip to the Los Angeles Criminal Courthouse to discuss his progress and treatment with a judge. After the Wu-Tang Clan rapper failed to show, a no-bail bench warrant was issued for his arrest. Jones' police file is the stuff of legend, even by rap-star standards. What makes this latest escapade particularly sad is that Jones, according to a friend, appeared to be getting clean and had been hoping to do publicity for the release of the Wu-Tang Clan's new album...
...ARRESTED. DARRYL STRAWBERRY, 38, baseball star, most recently of the New York Yankees; on charges of violating probation and using drugs while serving his sentence for a drug charge; in Tampa, Fla. Suspended from professional baseball, with a long history of arrests and drug problems, Strawberry was serving a sentence of two years of house arrest. He was charged in September with driving under the influence...
SHOCK THERAPY Sure, portable defibrillators are designed to save lives, but put them in a public place, like an airplane or a casino, and survival rates soar. Reports show that in casinos the heart-shocking devices rescued 53% of people in cardiac arrest. On airplanes, where it's easier to confuse an unconscious passenger with, say, a sleeping one, they saved 40%. U.S. survival rates, by comparison, are a dismal 5% because of time lost waiting for the paramedics. The findings are so encouraging that doctors want defibrillators (cost: $3,000) to become as commonplace as fire extinguishers...