Word: blood
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...Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, $400.7 m, $430 m, $830.7 m 2. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, $297.6 m, $619.7 m, $917.2 m 3. Up, $290.9 m, $124.9 m, $415.1 m 4. The Hangover, $272.2 m, $168.3 m, $440.5 m 5. Star Trek, $257.1 m, $126.4 m, $383.6 m 6. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, $194.2 m, $613.8 m, $808 m 7. X-Men Origins: Wolverine, $180 m, $183.5 m, $363.4 m 8. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, $176.7 m, $227.6 m, $404.4 m 9. The Proposal...
...year-old father half asleep on a cot. He hasn't eaten in 44 days; his siblings in the camp in Iraq are starving themselves too. His other daughter, Hoda, a doctor who watches over the strikers, says he and the others have reached a point where their blood pressure is so low they could die at any time. "I hope the U.S. fulfills its promise to the people of Camp Ashraf soon," says Farzaneh...
...discovered that business was about a lot more than a profit-and-loss statement. At first, the corporate stance was defensive: companies were punished by consumers for unethical behavior. In the 1990s, companies like Nike and Walmart were attacked for discriminatory and unfair labor practices. People became alarmed about "blood diamonds," or "conflict diamonds" - gems mined in war zones and used to finance conflict in Africa. More recently, consumers have become concerned about the sourcing of metals used in computers. The nexus of activist groups, consumers and government regulation could not merely tarnish a company...
Once the immediate onslaught of pollution is gone, blood pressure drops back down. But the damaging effects persist. Particulates can lodge deep in the lungs, where they activate another process - inflammation, which kicks in over the 24 hours after exposure. The inflammatory response can stiffen blood vessels and cause longer-term damage to blood-vessel flexibility and their ability to absorb changes in blood flow from the heart. Weakened blood vessels can increase the risk of heart disease or stroke...
...that doesn't mean that every urban resident is at higher risk of heart disease. For most healthy people, the exposure to city air and transient changes in blood pressure isn't dangerous. But, says Brook, "it's plausible that if someone has underlying hypertension or coronary disease, then these changes in blood pressure and blood-vessel function might be exaggerated and might even trigger a heart attack. The levels at which we encounter these particles today is still dangerous to people who are unhealthy and at high risk." (See pictures of the effects of global warming...