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...WHAT HAPPENS] Bad guys choke Riggs in anticipation of killing...
...cases of heart disease, it's unlikely to be behind them all, and there's no guarantee that managing the amino acid will decrease the risk of cardiac trouble. Regardless of circulating homocysteine levels, smoking and obesity will still ravage the cardiovascular system, and a poor diet will still choke the blood with fats. Cardiologist Roger Blumenthal of Johns Hopkins University estimates the share of all cardiac cases attributable to homocysteine at fewer than...
Even if new gas-sniffing and satellite equipment succeeds in keeping people on the ground safe from volcanoes, people in the skies could still be at risk. For them the danger comes from volcanic ash, which can choke the engines of passenger jets. Since the 1960s there have been 85 such midair encounters, and while none have led to a fatal crash, some have come close...
...country neared bankruptcy and more than a dozen banks were closed. The Socialists, led by Zhan Videnov, a former regional chief of the Communist Youth, more than doubled energy prices and public transport fares. The central bank then boosted interest rates to 300% in an attempt to choke off inflation. An editorial last week in the newspaper Trud supplied what could have served as a straight line for Marie Antoinette: "Bread is becoming a luxury...
Fujimori hardly blinks; he is unfazed by the stench of sweat and sewage. He moves toward the cell bars, his face so close that the guerrillas would gladly put him in a choke hold if not for the armed guards, and suddenly he smiles at them. Strolling on through the cellblock, he sees an inmate weaving straw hats. "Those are good looking," the President says; "let me buy one." The inmate's reply is hardly Marxist: "Ten soles" ($4). He hands the hat through the bars, and Fujimori puts it on. "Pay the man," he tells an aide...