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Every year since 1900, with only one exception (1918, when the influenza epidemic claimed more lives), heart disease has had the dubious honor of being the U.S.'s leading killer. Lowering cholesterol levels, specifically the low-density lipoproteins (LDL) that make meats and butter-laden desserts so irresistible to the palate but so hazardous to the heart, was the first step to slowing down the disease. But now physicians are shifting their attention to LDL's do-good partner, high-density lipoprotein (HDL), encouraged by early evidence suggesting it can not only clean out fatty deposits within blood-vessel walls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Ways To Think About Old Diseases | 3/12/2006 | See Source »

DALLAS Local customers buy Avon Glimmersticks ($6) "like bread and butter," according to one of the 11,000 company representatives who work in the area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The A List: Makeup | 3/8/2006 | See Source »

...commuting, city-working husband, she is first of all the manager of home and brood, and beyond that a sort of aproned activist with a penchant for keeping the neighborhood and community kettle whistling ... If she is not pregnant, she wonders if she is. She takes her peanut-butter sandwich lunch while standing, thinks she looks a fright, watches her weight (periodically), jabbers over the short-distance telephone with the next-door neighbor ... She wonders if her husband will send her flowers (on no special occasion), shoos the children next door to play at the neighbor's house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 3/5/2006 | See Source »

...Peanut butter. The deliciousness of the organic variety could just be the tip of the crunchy/creamy iceberg...

Author: By FM Staff | Title: 15 Savory Spotlights We'd Like to See | 3/1/2006 | See Source »

...proves a necessity. The fuzzy, homemade performance films are all set outdoors, tucked against the corner of buildings, with small crowds of attentive listeners. The amps are perched on the tops of narrow cement walls; some of the musicians cradle an electric guitar, others tap against glass bottles with butter knives. The electric likembé, made famous by Konono No.1, is ubiquitous. The film is a glimpse into a place that Congotronics has just begun to introduce to the rest of the world—as the bands here continue to play and record to a growing audience, this scene...

Author: By Catherine L. Tung, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Congotronics 2 | 2/23/2006 | See Source »

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