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...probably be reversed in a few years by more research. With more than 42,000 participants--including men, women, blacks and whites--the NHLBI investigation is the largest ever conducted in the study of high blood pressure. The goal was to compare some of the newer antihypertension treatments--like ACE inhibitors and calcium channel blockers--with an older group of drugs called thiazide diuretics. Although each of these medications had been shown to lower blood pressure better than a placebo, they had never really been tested against one another. "When the newer drugs came onboard, they had some hypothetical advantages...
...what does it take to ace the Putnam? It's not about memorizing theorems. "The Putnam does not try to measure mathematical knowledge," says Leonard Klosinski, director of the competition and a professor of math at Santa Clara University in California. "What it does test is the ability to solve very challenging problems in a fixed period of time. Students who do well are mathematically gifted, very quick and highly creative." The past winners aren't exactly household names--unless you live in an extremely enlightened household--but they include Richard Feynman and Kenneth Wilson, two Nobel prizewinners. Three Putnam...
...unless you happen to be a windmill repairman, she also knows a whole lot more than you do about old water-pumping windmills. When she started work on her sly new novel, That Old Ace in the Hole (Scribner; 384 pages), she thought it would center on windmills and the people who work on them in the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles. "For years I've drifted through there on the way to other places," she says in her agreeably settled but sometimes impish voice. "There were these dilapidated places with windmills facedown in the yard and a general...
...Tyson, who announced that he's ready to return to the ring and is "tired of being stupid." But the Klitschko brothers break that sorry old mold. They hold Ph.D.s in sports science from the University of Kiev, have cowritten a book on fitness, speak several languages and are ace chess players. And they may be having some influence on their colleagues. Lewis has become a chess devotee, although he hasn't yet matched the Klitschkos' prowess on the board. Vitaly held his own against Garry Kasparov in an exhibition match last year and played current world chess champion Vladimir...
...their matters of the heart will create more joy and crush more souls than "Das Kapital." Yes, their coquettery and evasions can exasperate men looking for an unequivocal answer to riddles of life and love. And when men have triumphed in their arguments with women, the women play their ace: they say, as Molly Bloom did, "Yes." This is the last word of the first and third "Utopia" plays; in each case it is spoken indulgently, as a mother would to calm a child's questing, questioning spirit. The political theories of Bakunin, Herzen and their coteries were expressions...