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...arteries and an enlarged heart, both risk factors for a heart attack. Traditionally, doctors could do little for their hypertensive patients other than advise them to adhere to a low-salt and low-fat diet. Today a flood of medications, including diuretics, calcium channel blockers, angiotensin-converting enzyme, or ace, inhibitors and beta blockers, give physicians and patients alike many options. Experts are still divided over what medication is most effective for which patients...
That will take some doing. Matching its fiscal reality to Wall Street's hopes will mean completing one of the great Horatio Alger stories in the history of American business. As every self-respecting teenage computer ace knows, Netscape was born in the ratty University of Illinois dorm of Andreessen, then 21, a Midwesterner who liked nothing so much as an afternoon in front of the computer, geeking out. Over a few dozen of those code-filled afternoons in 1993, Andreessen and his youthful collaborators put the finishing touches on the Model T of Web-browsing programs. They called...
...satellites may help, but unfortunately SOHO and the Polar are research satellites, meaning that they do not transmit data continuously. But next year NASA will launch the Advanced Composition Explorer, or ACE satellite, and place it in permanent orbit between the earth and the sun. Moment by moment, ACE will sample the solar wind and, almost as quickly, relay its findings back. If a blob of plasma heads this way, then ACE will see it--and alert forecasters like Hildner that a big one is about...
That's because the author of Walter Miller's Home Page claims he's relatively well known in the computer industry. "I'm not saying I'm the ace of spades, but I'm not the two of clubs either," he said last week, after agreeing to an unprecedented face-to-face meeting at a Manhattan barbecue joint. (For identification purposes, this was worthless: I didn't recognize...
...nickname is El Gordo, the Fat Man, and he is both agent and metaphor. Joe Cubas, 35, a contractor from Miami, has orchestrated five defections from Cuba's national baseball team, most recently on July 9, when ace pitcher Rolando Arrojo slipped into Cubas' car, leaving his team's exhibition tour. That incident, coupled with the defections in late June at the Mexican border of Cuban boxers Joel Casamayor and Ramon Garbey, have led to widespread speculation that the most exciting event at the Atlanta Olympics will be the long jump--from Cuba...