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...author of the report, M. Harvey Brenner of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, linked the sharp rise in unem ployment during the 1973-74 recession to a subsequent 2.8% rise hi deaths from heart attacks. Brenner found that a 3% decline in per capita income during the recession later caused 46,000 deaths from heart disease. Indeed, increased business failures were responsible for even more heart-disease fatalities - 95,680, to be exact...
...cope with an eccentric dentist who wears a Superman suit, or to record a hit country tune in Nashville, or to interview an underwater hockey team, the jokes sometimes seem forced. Even on TV, though, the zingers can zing: having decided, unaccountably, to interview a pig, she starts off, "Hi, I think I used to date your brother...
Among the waves of mortarboards at commencements across the U.S. this year, several, as usual, bore signs and greetings. One at the University of California at Berkeley offered a proud-and significant-variation on the customary HI, MOM. It read: HI, I AM MOM. The message aptly symbolized the presence of older generations among 1984's 1.37 million graduates, Mario Savio, 41, a leader of the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley in 1964, finally earned a physics degree, summa cum laude, from San Francisco State University. At Lehman College of City University of New York, Joseph Lipner...
...real serious problem if you have a woman Vice President." Roxanne Conlin reports something of the same trouble with farmers when she was campaigning for Governor of Iowa in 1982. "The sort of thing one does is campaign at grain elevators," she says. "I'd walk in and say, 'Hi, I'm Roxanne Conlin and I'm running for Governor.' People would stand there, like 'you're kidding.' One man just laughed for five minutes straight." Conlin lost, but most Iowa political analysts attributed her defeat to the disclosure that she and her millionaire husband paid minimal taxes...
Until recently, the most refined TVs spent their lives disguised as pieces of French provincial or early American furniture. But in much the same way the console hi-fi set was split into separate components 20 years ago and turned into the stereo sound system, the TV now comes in high-tech building blocks with vastly improved capabilities. This marks the biggest change to hit TV since color sets began replacing black-and-white ones in the early '60s. Says Lenny Mattioli, a video dealer in Madison, Wis.: "It used to be that...