NOTEBOOK

By KATHLEEN ADAMS, KATHLEEN HIRCE, NADYA LABI, JAMIE MALANOWSKI, ELIZABETH RUDULPH, ALAIN L. SANDERS AND GABRIEL SNYDER

WINNERS & LOSERS

THE DOG DAYS OF AUGUST

[WINNERS]

GEOFFREY BIBLE Teaching an old dog new tricks. Philip Morris head says tobacco can, maybe, er, kill you

RON CAREY Underdog has his day. Teamster's doggedness pays off as UPS cries uncle

ARPAD BUSSON Lucky dog. European playboy fathers Elle Macpherson's baby

[& LOSERS]

ANTHONY QUINN What a dog. The actor, 82, pays off long-suffering ex-wife to marry his 35-year-old mistress

RON CAREY Dirty dog? Judge throws out his election because of alleged skimming of the union treasury

HUDSON BEEF You wouldn't feed it to a dog. Bacteria scare shuts plant

HEALTH REPORT

THE GOOD NEWS

BEFORE THE FALL Half of nursing-home residents take a spill each year. But common-sense safety measures such as lowering bedside access and using wheelchair seat belts can help cut harmful falls by 50%.

DON'T WORRY, BE SPOTLESS New findings indicate that women vaccinated against rubella, or German measles, commonly a cause of birth defects, do not, as previously suspected, have an increased risk of chronic arthritis.

NOT BAD TO THE BONE For decades women who breast-fed their infants were urged to supplement their diet with calcium to protect against bone loss. A new study says they don't need to.

Sources: Journal of the A.M.A. (2), New England Journal of Medicine

THE BAD NEWS

CAREFUL WHOM YOU LIVE WITH Nondrinkers living with abusers of alcohol face almost twice the normal risk of being violently killed. People who don't use illicit drugs but live with a drug abuser are at more than 11 times the normal risk of being murdered.

BUT NOT A DROP TO DRINK Many mothers of infants don't know that it might be dangerous to give their babies water regularly in addition to breast milk or formula. Infants are unable to filter water properly through their systems.

BLOOD MAY BE THICKER A study of college students shows 21% reported physical, and 32% emotional, abuse by a sibling.

Sources: Journal of the A.M.A., Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine , American Psychological Assn. mtg.

NUMBERS

25 million Pounds of beef recalled by Hudson Foods last week

49 million Pounds of beef consumed by Americans every day

1 Number of women who left Virginia Military Institute four days after registration

16 Number of men who left the campus after the same amount of time

62% Percentage of stories on poor people in TIME, Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report that were illustrated with photos of African Americans

29% Percentage of poor Americans who are black

$36,000 Average annual pension that a UPS driver with 30 years of service will receive under the new Teamster contract

$542,506 Annual pension former UPS CEO Kent Nelson received when he retired last January after 30 years with the company

Sources: Associated Press, National Cattlemen's Beef Association, VMI, Public Opinion Quarterly, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, United Parcel Service

TIME CAPSULE

Do-nothing vacations are nothing new for Presidents. Neither is the holiday celebrity drop-by. So lie back and read TIME's first presidential vacation report, Sept. 1, 1924, on CALVIN COOLIDGE

Thomas A. Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone and the latter's son Russell motored into Plymouth [Vt.] and stopped at the Coolidge farmhouse. The President took them through the local cheese factory, of which his father is part owner, and gave Mr. Ford a sap bucket of pine with ash hoops, capacity 16 quarts, which had been made for and used by John Coolidge, a great-great-grandfather of the President, who died in 1822. Everybody's picture was taken... In a thunderstorm, lightning struck near the Coolidge farmhouse. It got into the headlines... The President at one time, his son John at another, pitched horseshoes... Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge walked out and stood under the shade of maple trees, while a long line of neighbors formed, had their hands shaken and received a few words each, depending on the degree of their acquaintanceship... [At his cousin's home, the President] put on a pair of overalls, removed his collar and tie, loaded a hay wagon. Pictures were then taken.