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RACIAL DISPARITY African Americans suffer congestive heart failure twice as often as do whites--and are more likely to die of it. Yet for unknown reasons, they don't seem to get much benefit from treatment. Now doctors show that a combination of a new beta blocker, called Coreg, and ACE inhibitors is equally effective for blacks as it is for whites, Asians and Hispanics at slowing the rate at which the disease progresses...
Tanto is a former race car driver whose past failures haunt him as much as the scars he bears from the accident that ended his career, and almost his life. Now, his old boss Carl Henry wants him back, but only as a backup and blocker for the rookie sensation Jimmy Bly (Kip Pardue). But Tanto’s old nemesis Brandenberg (Til Schweiger) is still determined to win the championship. Complicating matters is Bly’s budding romance with Brandenberg’s estranged girlfriend Sophia (Estella Warren). The film spends as much time exploring the psyches...
...What is corrupting the do-women-need-men? debate is that third word. Need is best reserved for talk of survival, to denote imperatives like food, shelter and warmth. In couples, need easily corrodes into demand. It acts as a beta-blocker to want, enjoy, share, like, love. If you ask whether women want men, the answer, statistically at least, remains a resounding yes. Despite men's abominable behavior, there are few signs of a general exodus to Lesbos or to living solo, worthy of consideration though both options...
Harvard lost the first game, but quickly established its block and stymied the Southampton offense for the final three games with freshman middle blocker Juan Carlos Cardet leading...
Conspicuously absent from the determination of Susan's fate is any mention of her SATs. That's because, in the parlance of Mount Holyoke's admissions officers, Susan is a "score blocker." Last summer Mount Holyoke announced that for a five-year trial period, it would give applicants the option of withholding their test scores, allowing the college to test the effectiveness of the SAT as a predictor of college success. This fall applications rose 10%, with 1 in 6 scores withheld. Now it's crunch time for the school's admissions officers, who have holed up in an unassuming...