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When Dick Cheney felt those familiar chest pains early last Wednesday, he knew exactly what to do. Having already had three heart attacks, he headed straight for George Washington University Hospital and sought immediate medical attention. How many of us would react so promptly--or, heart specialists agree, so properly--to the chest pains that could be early signs of a heart attack? Time is muscle, doctors like to say; the longer you wait, the more heart muscle you can lose...
...Gore's favor, having a similar effect of leaving Florida to its own devices, would be a slightly stronger one. But either would only require the Bush camp to continue the fight in the Florida courts, which it's doing anyway. Both of those would puff Gore's chest out a bit, but not change much once the dust settled...
...doing for the heart besides lowering cholesterol levels. It turns out that the noncholesterol effects of statins, such as controlling clotting and inflammation, may be as important as the cholesterol effects. In a study of patients given atorvastatin (Lipitor) as soon as they arrived at a hospital complaining of chest pain, it was found that those who took the drug for four weeks after their cardiac event were significantly less likely to be rehospitalized or feel increased chest pains than patients who did not take the statin. However, another study that looked at the effect of a different statin taken...
...wonder Dick Cheney's having chest pains...
...take Miami-Dade (and any other county he wants) all the way back to the Supreme Court and poke the Florida legislature in the chest. And really catch hell from congressional Democrats who already have the votes to shut Bush down - they'd love Gore to take one for the 2002 team...