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Larry King: The day my heart stopped

I was in Washington, D.C., recently with many of my closest friends celebrating the 20th anniversary of The Larry King Cardiac Foundation. Flashback to the day in 1987 that my heart literally stopped. I was working at CNN from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. and for Mutual Broadcasting doing an overnight nationally syndicated radio show from midnight to 4 a.m. Each guest I interviewed that night kept asking me if I felt OK, which I thought was rather strange, especially since one of those guests was Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett Koop. I finished the radio show and suddenly felt a pain I couldn't explain. After hearing all these guests telling me I didn't look good, I decided to go to the hospital just to make sure I was OK. It turned out I was having a heart attack -- an event that forever changed my life. My close encounter with death led to a quintuple bypass. This was the biggest wake-up call of my life. It forced me to reconsider my lifestyle. And it made me aware of

Money Magazine: Watch Your Steps

Before there were treadmills, elliptical machines, ergometers and Ab Scissors, there was walking. And in the 2 million years since Homo erectus started humankind ambulating without the aid of knuckles, putting one foot in front of the other has established itself as more than just a fitness fad. Some 54 million people walk as exercise today, according to the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association, and no wonder. It requires merely the oomph to get off the couch and the wherewithal to buy a good pair of sneakers.

Fortune: 50 Lessons Sorry you paid $4.95 for this issue and got only 12 lessons in the cover story? No problem! Here are 50 more...free o

1. Internet billionaires should not own professional sports teams.

Fortune: Pragmatism and taxes, our affluent cigar smokers, doing deals in the elevator, and other matters. ELASTICITY, IT'S WONDERFUL

More than any of its predecessors, the Surgeon General's latest report on smoking is a treasure trove of nicotinic esoterica. Flipping randomly through the pages, one learns, for example, that the ...

Fortune: A New Hat at Harvard, The Emerging Case Against Coffee, Private Baloney, and Other Matters. The Meaning of Addiction

The headlines proclaim that Surgeon General C. Everett Koop says cigarettes are addictive. Is he right about that? Bold answer: It depends on what you mean by addiction. As you might expect, not ev...

Fortune: NOW HEAR THIS

''They kept sending me cards, so I figured I must have been okay. Either that, or they were awfully slow.'' - RICHARD ADOLPSON, 59, an Iowa security guard who earns about $22,000 a year, after runn...

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