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...heart. Calcium can then build up in the vessels and stiffen them, laying the foundation for heart disease. Getting one's calcium score is as simple as getting a quick injection of a contrast agent in the arm and a zap from an ultrafast X ray, either by electron beam computed tomography (EBCT) or by multidetector CT. Studies show that in every age group people with higher calcium levels have a greater risk of heart attack than do people of the same age with lower scores...
...Canadian-born actor forever known, to his later dismay, as Montgomery Scott, level-headed chief engineer of Star Trek's U.S.S. Enterprise; in Redmond, Washington. With his exasperated Scottish burr ("We've got nuh powrrr, Cap'n!"), he repeatedly saved the ship from disasters, but the famous line "Beam me up, Scotty" was actually never spoken exactly that way on the original show...
...Canadian-born actor forever known, to his later dismay, as Montgomery Scott, level-headed chief engineer of Star Trek's U.S.S. Enterprise; in Redmond, Wash. With his exasperated Scottish burr ("We've got nuh powrrr, Cap'n!"), he saved the ship from repeated disasters, but the famous line "Beam me up, Scotty" was actually never spoken exactly that way on the original show...
...technology that might be used to implement the President's Strategic Defense Initiative. Last Saturday at an under ground site in Pahute Mesa, Nev., northwest of Las Vegas, the U.S. exploded a device (code-named Goldstone) designed to channel the energy of a nuclear blast into a concentrated, powerful beam of X-rays that could knock out a missile or warhead. Indeed, it may have been the Soviets' fear of SDI that pushed the Kremlin to show some flexibility on verification, in the hope of winning a ban on future tests of such Star Wars technology...
...cranes many times, but at day's end, peering through the torn burlap curtain of a small wooden blind, he marvels anew at the squadrons of cranes landing in the Platte like parachutists dropping from the sky. Dark descends, and a full moon magically rises, throwing a broad moon-beam across both river and cranes. "What's the fascination?" Sublett murmurs. With the cries of the cranes filling the air, he answers his own question. "I guess it's that they've been coming here for millenniums, and they're still coming here. I guess we haven't screwed...