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Tens of millions of Americans have quit smoking cigarettes. The benefits of quitting - no matter what your age - are prodigious. Risks of heart disease and stroke plummet. So does the risk of lung cancer, along with cancers of the mouth, throat, bladder, cervix and pancreas. But can the damage from smoking ever be completely undone? Norman Edelman, chief medical officer of the American Lung Association, explains...
...that "can cause a lot of suffering for the people if we go back to war." The militias had asked him if they could do just that, he added. "They said this country was won by the barrel of the gun and should we let it go at the stroke of a pen? Should one just write an X and then the country goes just like that?" This indivisibility of the interests of party and country has become a common regime refrain. On May 29, army Chief of Staff Martin Chedondo was quoted in the Herald telling his men their...
There is a common misconception among Americans that Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves with a stroke of his pen. Yet the Emancipation Proclamation, which went into effect on Jan. 1, 1863, did no such thing - or, at least, it didn't do a very good job of it. Two and a half years later, on June 19, 1865, Union soldiers sailed into Galveston, Texas, announced the end of the Civil War, and read aloud a general order freeing the quarter-million slaves residing in the state. It's likely that none of them had any idea that they had actually...
...health [May 26] is that 11% of American males 71 or older have dementia of one kind or another, according to a comprehensive study published late last year. This is not a partisan statistic. If Hillary Clinton or Obama had a decent chance of having a heart attack or stroke in office, would this be something the electorate had a legitimate interest in? Signs and symptoms of dementia include memory loss and difficulty with language and learning new things. As a health professional with years of experience in this area, I call on McCain to undergo testing to verify...
...race is always a really good gauge for how we are against the other boats. We were five seconds behind them and we thought five seconds isn’t that much because that time can be made up if we just go a little bit faster over each stroke.”And Harvard did indeed achieve more length per stroke as it finished just .05 seconds behind Dartmouth the following Saturday at its first race of the season on the Charles. For the second time in three years, the Crimson was forced to relinquish the Biglin Bowl...