Word: chest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...PATIENT COMPLAINS OF SEVERE CHEST PAINS, A sign that a heart attack is imminent or already in progress. Doctors have two options: inject the patient with drugs to dissolve clots in the coronary arteries or resort to angioplasty, an operation that involves opening the blood vessels by inserting and inflating tiny balloons. The drug treatment is simpler than angioplasty, but which is more effective? Two reports published in the New England Journal of Medicine come down on the side of the balloons. In one study, angioplasty reduced by half the risk of death or another heart attack six months after...
HERE'S A SPLASHY, SWAGGERING CRIME novel with a lot of what would be chest hair and gold chains if it were a human male instead of a book. But Robert Ferrigno's THE CHESHIRE MOON (Morrow; $20) is just mirror tough; it sneaks a glance at itself too often, likes what it sees too much. Quinn, the hero, is supposed to be a stressed-out investigative reporter; and since this is Los Angeles, he's got a bigfoot Jeep with a camo paint job (there's a plot, but first things first) and a drop-dead Japanese-American photog...
...class, silently preparing to collect a couple of hundred dollars on a dare. She had settled on a simple plan. Just wait for the bell to ring, reach into her book bag, grab the 12-in. fillet knife she had brought from home and stab the teacher in the chest while Marlena, a 12- year-old accomplice, pinned her down. Then -- whoosh -- instant respect...
...Russian guard said he was attacked "one ortwo minutes" after he began reading the bulletinboard. The Russian guard said his assailant struckhim in the back and in the chest and had his fistclenched to throw a third punch when he wasrestrained by Dowling...
...Saddam's primary audience was elsewhere. His chest-pounding provocations were a classic barbarians-at-the-gate strategy, designed to deflect attention from the dismal economic situation at home, heightened by U.N. sanctions, that has left Iraqis hunting daily for food. His police apparatus has reasserted its grip since the war, so citizens harbor few doubts that Saddam is still in charge. But he may have cause to worry about his 400,000-man armed forces. Kurds and other opponents have spread stories of anti-Saddam moles within the armed forces, particularly those stationed far from Baghdad. "I think...