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...blood levels of cholesterol--a fatty substance found in meat, poultry, eggs and dairy products--also tended to suffer from heart disease. Cholesterol by-products would form thick, tough deposits, called plaques, on the inner walls of arteries, stiffening them and then starving the heart of blood and creating choke points where a clot could stop the flow entirely...
...They flit across our TV screens, these appalling images of devastation. We choke up a bit, perhaps send a donation to an appropriate charity, then go back to our lives. Because New Orleans is in America, and because it became a political embarrassment as well as a human disaster, Katrina got more sustained attention. But what of other natural catastrophes, like the tsunami in Indonesia? Or the Iranian city of Bam, which, on Dec. 26, 2003 - exactly a year before the Indonesian tsunami - was leveled by an earthquake. Of the 100,000 inhabitants, 30,000 died. The rest were left...
...overblown Peter Pan persona and walking anti-anachronism. Norton’s confident development of character transforms ridiculous and surreal elements into plausible and lamentable events. Bottom Line: The over satiation of artistic elements and the negligible editing of “Down in the Valley” choke some of the vitality from an inventive film with inspired acting...
...Dollar-Yuan exchange rate adjusts and American products become more competitive. Though our $202 billion trade deficit with China is unsustainable and must be dealt with, the lessons of Ec10 must be heeded. Although trade barriers may boost domestic industry and lower the unemployment rate in some sectors, they choke off the flow of cheap imports into the U.S. The increase in the cost of living far outweighs the gains made by keeping uncompetitive businesses afloat. In other words, though a seamstress may have lost her job to China, everybody’s getting cheaper clothes. The onus...
...Contract and 8 1/2 Women, he made meticulously malevolent short films (seven are collected here) and The Falls, a three-hour fake-umentary about 92 people whose lives were altered by a Violent Unknown Event. The textual and textural density is intoxicating, the English wit so dry you could choke on it. A sturdy challenge for movie lovers--and unmissable...