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...make up for a lack of taste. Nowadays everybody is expected to just take a prescription medication to solve blood-pressure problems. I want to combat hypertension through diet and exercise, not by taking pills. Listen up, marketers: Low carb is out; no salt is in! Laurel Gruber Avon Lake, Ohio, U.S. Instead of looking to drug companies to fix the problem, maybe we should explore the reasons behind the rise in hypertension. Yes, diet and exercise have always been important to achieving a healthy lifestyle. But never before have we been under so much stress. Our children, especially...
LAUREL GRUBER Avon Lake, Ohio...
...defendant were looking for an exit--she to avoid what surely would have been a grueling trial, he to avoid the risk of conviction. In midafternoon on Sept. 1, one of Bryant's local attorneys, Terrence P. O'Connor, whose office is in Edwards, visited the nearby Avon office of John Clune, who represents the accuser. It is believed that O'Connor carried a carefully crafted apology that he said Bryant would be willing to release once the charge had been dropped. The two had been discussing it for weeks, says former Eagle County prosecutor Bruce Carey, a courthouse regular...
Credit card issuers know that you, as a consumer, are more loyal to brands like Avon, Barnes & Noble and Amazon than you'll ever be to them. The first offer of a lower interest rate that lands in your mailbox, and you're likely to be off--which is why card companies are increasingly hitching their stars to other brands. To win your favor, they're offering to help you buy more of your favorite products. Is there a downside to these deals...
...Canal building requires tricky engineering over obstacles such as hills; the typical solution is a lock, which fills or empties to adjust water height. On Britain's southernmost canal?the 140-km Kennet and Avon, linking the town of Reading on the River Thames to the seaport of Bristol?travelers will encounter dozens of locks, often close together, as in the impressive flight of 16 built in 1810 to climb Caen Hill near Devizes, Wiltshire, pictured above. In traditional canal boats that rent from $1,160 a week, you can chug merrily along, do some lazy fishing and nature watching...