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...darim [We love you]!" This is a nation desperate for change, starving for leadership. And Khatami's difficult task is to rework Iran's system from within. It's an excruciatingly difficult way to be a reformer, fighting battles by not fighting battles. The pressures are exacting a toll. Chest pains sent him to the hospital recently. He winds down each night by scratching out a few pages of his memoir--in ink--at home. Khatami is a former Culture Minister and a onetime head of the national library. He is not a born politician. His colleagues speak...
...answer to memory woes was not in the medicine chest, but that didn't mean I was a hopeless case. My recall had improved only incrementally after two weeks in the memory-enhancement trenches--but the fact is, it had improved. I may not be able to read a magazine and instantly memorize it, but I now remember to buy it when I get to the store. I may not be able to memorize hundreds of names and faces, but at least I won't meet an Alex at a party and find myself calling him Alan or Alvin...
...turned out that I was in denial. And I was typical. "Since we were children, we have thought of our parents as being the strong role models," she said. As she spoke, a big heavy wad of something started to fill the part of my chest I prefer to reserve for breathing. I described this sensation to Dr. Benton in clinical terms: "You're making me feel creepy...
BEAT YOUR CHEST Administering CPR isn't easy. Even former ER doc George Clooney probably couldn't do it. But as long as help is on the way, just pumping the chest may save as many lives as performing both the chest compressions and mouth to mouth. Reason: valuable time is lost while a dispatcher explains the complexities of mouth-to-mouth breathing. And when chest compressions are done by an inexperienced bystander, they're usually done right...
FATAL ATTRACTI0N Are you one of the 2 million Americans with a pacemaker or implantable defibrillator in your chest? Then be wary of therapeutic magnets used to relieve arthritis and muscle aches. A report shows that those popular mattress pads containing magnets can interfere with--and sometimes deactivate--implantable heart-rhythm regulators. You're probably safe with smaller magnetic gear worn on the wrist or foot, as long as it's kept at least 6 in. from your shoulder. That's where the circuitry for the heart devices is housed...