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Leigh has been "devising" films, as he puts it, for 25 years, since the aptly titled Bleak Moments. Unable to secure studio financing, he made films for the BBC and Channel 4, where he carved out his own dramatic genre: working-class Brits scraping each other's skin with their verbal aggressions. Since the late '80s he has worked on the big screen. Some of his films (High Hopes, Life Is Sweet, Naked) have earned him critics' awards and a small, passionate U.S. following. He has received museum retrospectives and is the subject of Michael Coveney's comprehensive, reverent biography...
...Against the Machine, is asked to name his favorite guitar player, his answer is intriguingly atypical. He doesn't name Led Zeppelin's much copied Jimmy Page, though he does allow that Page's "mysterious, unsavory" guitar solos made him think, when he was young, that he too could "channel mysterious, unsavory things into suburban Illinois through my guitar." And he doesn't name Jimi Hendrix, though when Morello was a student at Harvard in the mid-1980s (major: social studies), he sported an impressively expansive Hendrix-style Afro...
...Though the manufacturer disputes the finding, a study shows that the CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKER isradipine, prescribed for high blood pressure, may slightly increase the risk of stroke, angina and heart attack...
What doctors would really like to have at their disposal is a way of preventing the brain from hitting the panic button in the first place. Researchers are studying several compounds, including calcium-channel blockers, that can slow down the metabolism of nerve tissue. The lower rate could help the brain get by on less oxygen and fewer nutrients, thereby lengthening to as much as 12 hours the amount of time doctors have to re-establish normal blood flow...
...vessels can result in hardened arteries and an enlarged heart, both risk factors for a heart attack. Traditionally, doctors could do little for their hypertensive patients other than advise them to adhere to a low-salt and low-fat diet. Today a flood of medications, including diuretics, calcium channel blockers, angiotensin-converting enzyme, or ace, inhibitors and beta blockers, give physicians and patients alike many options. Experts are still divided over what medication is most effective for which patients...