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Today: mostly sunny, breezy and colder, high near 45. Northwest wind 15 to 25 mph. Tonight: clear and cold, lows in the lower 30s in the city, 20s in the suburbs. Tomorrow: mostly sunny, high...
They begin to form when he is still an adolescent, smooth fatty streaks on the interior wall of a major coronary artery -- the ominous consequence of a typically American high-cholesterol, high-fat diet. By his 20s, the streaks have formed plaques, growths with a fatty center covered by a fibrous cap of smooth muscle cells. By his 40s, the plaque, its buildup accelerated by smoking and high blood pressure, has protruded well into the bloodstream, closing 65% of the arterial passage. The blood swirls and eddies dangerously as it forces its way past the swelling obstructions...
...reluctant superpower seeks an end to toil. Which is why Americans are endlessly resourceful in trying to evade the burdens of history. First, there was the isolationism of the '20s and '30s. Then, during the cold war, the American left counseled abdication, denying either that the cold war existed or that it was anything more than a cozy arrangement to keep the Pentagon and the paranoid right happy...
...teens virtually Pleistocene. The curators do their best with this, reprinting front pages of Parisian newspapers that Picasso, Braque and Gris cut their collage materials from, or hanging photographs of the kinds of shopwindow display that, they persuasively argue, reinforced the cult of the Surrealist object in the '20s. But the effort to put long-gone popular culture in a museum is like trying to resurrect an old perfume in a room...
...also a bit short on diversity: both story subjects and models (the magazines are greatly concerned with clothes) are overwhelmingly white. The very fact of homosexuality is largely ignored. Three competitors are in their opening month or two: Details, a bratty, street- talking melange aimed at men in their 20s and early 30s; Men's Life, a smirky yet sentimental blend of National Lampoon and the Saturday Evening Post directed at fortyish suburban baby boomers; and M Inc., a merger of two prestigious but money-losing forerunners, Manhattan, inc. and M, that is meant, like its predecessors, for the well...