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...dollars for ventures that have reshaped American business. Yet most investors have had persistent reservations about the safety of the securities. One concern is that too much of the underwriting and trading in junk bonds has been handled by just one firm, Drexel Burnham Lambert (last name pronounced Lamb-bear), which controls 50% of the market. If that go-go firm were to get into trouble, many certificates could become more difficult to sell and would decline substantially in value...
...study presented in Dallas by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions appears to bear him out. The Hopkins team, led by Cardiologist Sidney Gottlieb, examined 103 heartattack patients who seemed to be recovering without complications or pain and found that 30 were having ischemic episodes. One year later nine (30%) of these people had died from heart attacks. Of the 73 without silent ischemia, only eight (11%) had suffered fatal heart attacks. "If you have had a heart attack and you have ischemia," Gottlieb concluded, "you may have a three times greater risk of dying...
...Bears have watered down their stomp a little this year, skirting the likes of Detroit (13-7), Philadelphia (13-10) and Atlanta (13-10), winning all the same. They have not only beaten but joined the media. A Bear without his own radio show has become an object of pity. McMahon, Ditka, Linebacker Mike Singletary -- everyone but William ("the Refrigerator") Perry, it seems -- have penned monographs to last season's glory. Perry is thinking about a cookbook...
...Portuguese, Irish, Poles, Hungarians and Russians. What she really hears is a part of America cooking, and that is less than the title promises. And she goes on at great length with quotes from too many old American cookbooks, long in the public domain and too well known to bear repeating...
Thus, while our society's increasing pursuit of health has resulted in enormous gains, a note of caution may also be in order. Medicine, health promotion and disease prevention have their limitations after all, and we would do well to bear them in mind...