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...politically, almost nowhere to be heard. Ferguson knows how to wrest contentious conclusions out of painstaking research. In The Pity of War (1998), he argued that the World War I was a fight Britain should have ducked. In Empire (and an accompanying six-part series on Britain's Channel Four), he charts how, over a span of 300 years, Britain laid claim to a quarter of the planet's land surface and its people. The tale he tells is astonishing - but what really astounds is Ferguson's glowing praise. Contemporary historians routinely decry the Empire's sins; Ferguson celebrates...
...until the legal problems could be sorted out. The changes should do away with the anomaly of a leader who "clearly holds power" but no accountability, says analyst Ismet Berkan in Istanbul. "It will be a huge step to normalizing the political setup." - By Andrew Purvis THE CHANNEL Shipwreck Ahoy! Landlubbers and sea dogs alike could only shake their heads at the New Year's Day news that the tanker Vicky had collided with the submerged wreck of the car transporter Tricolor in the English Channel. A spokesman for the British maritime union NUMAST said the accident "beggared belief...
...changed culture in 2002, it was to make it more of what it already was. Niche culture continued to erode mainstream culture. Except for a few uniting events--the 9/11 anniversary, the opening weekend of Attack of the Clones--the mass market continued to fragment, with a digital cable channel and a bootleg Internet remix for every consumer, while the online version of real-life-simulation game The Sims promised players a chance to be virtually together, alone. The mainstream became more mainstream (that is, more reverent and safe); the niches got nichier (more outre and provocative). E pluribus, pluribus...
...years by more research. With more than 42,000 participants--including men, women, blacks and whites--the NHLBI investigation is the largest ever conducted in the study of high blood pressure. The goal was to compare some of the newer antihypertension treatments--like ACE inhibitors and calcium channel blockers--with an older group of drugs called thiazide diuretics. Although each of these medications had been shown to lower blood pressure better than a placebo, they had never really been tested against one another. "When the newer drugs came onboard, they had some hypothetical advantages over diuretics," explains Dr. Jackson Wright...
...diuretics turned out to be just as effective as ACE inhibitors and calcium channel blockers in treating hypertension, and were associated with fewer complications. That's good news for patients, since diuretics are cheap: they cost about $25 a year, in contrast to $250 for ACE inhibitors and $500 for calcium channel blockers. Doctors have also learned that they can prescribe diuretics in much smaller doses than they did 20 or 30 years ago, which means the drugs trigger fewer side effects like dizziness...