Word: prone
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...Hawks are prone to poor ballhandling, with 177 assists against 262 turnovers on the season, and shoot 40.2 percent from the field, while their opponents shoot 43.8 percent...
DONNA BRAZILE Gaffe-prone Gore aide says G.O.P. doesn't care about blacks, gets rebuke from Colin Powell...
...does the fact that they're less prone to heart failure mean that Japanese and Mediterraneans have stronger tickers than Northern Europeans and Americans? Not exactly. The Dutch researchers who conducted the study believe it's more a function of cultural factors such as diet: Mediterraneans and Japanese tend to favor low-cholesterol diets, low on meats and fried foods and heavy on fish and olive oil. The authors of the study suggest that in high-risk regions the standard blood pressure test included in most checkups be replaced by a "global score" that includes such factors as cholesterol level...
...papers addressing women's health issues, it looks like no news might have been better. The outlook for female patients is grim on multiple medical fronts: Women are contracting AIDS at higher rates than men, they are suffering from myriad heart problems, and they seem to be more prone to lung cancer. A study released Wednesday in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute finds that a gene thought to cause lung cancer is active in more women than men. Researchers speculate that this could explain why women smokers are more than twice as likely to develop lung cancer than...