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...This guy right here," Jama said, gesturing to her neighbor, "recognized me from the facebook...
...Safia Jama '99, who lives in Eliot House, said she feels an on-line facebook "would be convenient...
...describing a new report charging that for 30 years, the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. hidevidence that nicotine was addictive. This week's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association is devoted to the report, a review of almost 10,000 pages of documents from the company. The JAMA report charges that lawyers for the firm routinely labeled internal research as "privileged" to avoid having to reveal the information to anyone suing the company over health problems. "We've seen a lot of this information before," says TIME's Anastasia Toufexis, "but never so much compiled in one place...
...awareness of violence, the tide of violent behavior does not show any signs of turning.'' So concerned are physicians that this week's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association is devoted almost entirely to the subject of violence. Despite an overall decline in U.S. crime, the JAMA editorial notes, incidents of violent crime (homicide, rape and armed robbery)continue to increase, especially among young people. McAfee said doctors were "frustrated and tired of working to put people back together again just to see them back in the emergency room or morgue days later...
...were stunned," says Dr. Albert Stunkard, a psychiatrist at the University of Pennsylvania and a leading expert on what makes people put on pounds. "It runs counter to what we as a nation seem to be doing." In a sharply worded JAMA editorial, Dr. F. Xavier Pi-Sunyer of New York City's St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital sounded the medical alarm, pointing out that the extra baggage is not just unsightly but unhealthy as well. Pi-Sunyer says the plumping of America will put millions of people at an increased risk for diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, stroke, gout, arthritis...