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...everyone out there checking out those Rogaine ads, there may be a larger issue to focus on: A study published in Monday's Archives of Internal Medicine that links baldness with heart disease. For instance, men who are bald at the crowns of their heads were three times as likely than their more hirsute counterparts to suffer from heart disease. With 22,000 participants, this is the largest study to date on the subject and the first to differentiate between different types of baldness...
...world have to take up yoga and go vegan? Not exactly. "This is a study in a good journal," notes TIME medical contributor Dr. Ian Smith. "But it's just an association - this does not show a cause-and-effect relationship. There are several reasons why people go bald, be they genetic, lifestyle or dermatological. Based on this type of study, bald people shouldn't get crazy about coronary risks." Yet the relationship shouldn't be seen as mere coincidence. Baldness and heart disease are both associated with high levels of testosterone, which, in turn is associated with hypertension...
...Eventually, the Owl wins out, and we proceeded on to Holyoke Street. The Final Party appears in sight. Suspiciously quiet even as we drew near, though, we concede that absolutely nothing is going on there. A newly bald Owl-punchee confirms our observations by saying "It's over. We're all at the Grille...
...security interests," said Senator James Inhofe, the Oklahoma Republican who heads the Senate Armed Services Committee readiness panel. And there were dire warnings that America was not ready to fight. But, like so many things that emanate from the Pentagon, there's far more to this story than the bald fact that a pair of divisions flunked their readiness drill...
...there at 1 a.m. on a Tuesday night, and she's got three friends there, and two of them split. We're sitting there, bald and enormous, and all these dudes are hitting on our girls while we're sitting there," Nowinski says...