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...well-developed case of heart disease. Eventually the narrowing arterial passage could be blocked by a blood clot or by a spasm that constricts and closes the artery. That could cut off the blood supply to his heart, causing possibly fatal damage to its muscle. In short, he is a prime candidate for heart attack, which annually strikes 1.5 million Americans, killing half a million of them. (Women as well as men are vulnerable to heart disease, though usually later in life...
Stress, Benson explains, brings on a rise in blood pressure and spurs the release of catecholamines, substances that increase the tendency of blood to clot and make arteries more vulnerable to spasm. Over time, these changes play an important role, many doctors believe, in the progression of heart disease. However, Benson has shown, the changes can be largely counteracted by the "relaxation response" that follows 15 minutes of meditation...
...Washington D.C. complained to her children of chest pains and shortness of breath. One of her daughters brought her to D.C. General Emergency Room, where she was asked to sit in the waiting area. Three hours later, she collapsed in front of the receptionist's desk with a blood clot in her lung, less than 50 feet from advanced resuscitation equipment. After 30 minutes of intensive treatment, physicians declared her dead...
...night at home alone induces existential dread, and success for someone like Colacello is measured not simply in invitations secured but also in invitations to events from which Warhol is excluded. Friendship seems to be beside the point; in a moment of accidental insight, Colacello remarks of the clot of people around Warhol that they wanted to go out with Andy, not home with...
...tall Cockatoo and Parakeet, a bird with opalescent feathers pecks at vibrant cherries. In the magnificent Landscape Triptych, Tiffany played with shade and light in a glade to produce landscape poetry worthy of the Hudson River school of painting. Vase of Red Peonies, dominated by a glorious clot of blossoms, prefigures abstraction...