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...Greatest Show On Earth: There are animals, of course, walking improbably on their hind legs, but it's humans who elicit the held breath at the 132nd Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus. In a computer-generated age, there's an odd thrill in seeing a real person do the undoable, like leap through a ring of flaming knives blindfolded. And the cheeky audience-participation antics of David Larible, above, make clowns seem almost hip. Almost...
...test. Prior to the talent competition, I stood outside Leverett Dining Hall in a dimly lit alley waiting for the stage door to open. Three local youths—two women and a guy—approached me with their bloodshot eyes and the stench of alcohol on their breath. The male pressed me to take off my wig. He wanted to run on stage, he explained, and shout expletives at the “faggots” in drag. I told him my wig was glued to my head. Then he pulled out a bottle of vodka from...
HEART MONITOR You may be surprised to learn that if you rush to the emergency room with shortness of breath, there is a 40% chance that the doctors won't be able to tell if it's your heart, your lungs or something else that's failing. That may change, thanks to a study of 1,500 patients conducted at the San Diego Veterans Administration. Doctors showed that measuring levels of a particular heart hormone, BNP, could improve by 75% doctors' chances of accurately diagnosing heart failure in patients with difficulty breathing. The BNP test, which costs $20, is used...
...think the people who fit in really fit in and liked it there a lot,” Koo says. “What I noticed is that when the [randomized group of] sophomores came in it was kind of a breath of fresh...
...Yugoslavia” is now a relic—today there are “Serbia and Montenegro.” Still confused? You should be. The new name is unwieldy, trying to express everything that needs to be said in a single breath. Beyond that, it dismisses the ethnic identities of two distinct peoples: Serbs and Montenegrins...