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...contemplating the meaning of life? It turns out that women think they too need a good midlife crisis, only now it isn't the subject of jokes. It is "a major turning point in their lives." Men in a midlife crisis are usually pictured as balding and paunchy. In contrast, the women you featured are all attractive and in shape. They seem empowered by their crises. The disparity of all that is enough to make me question my male existence. Perhaps I'll buy a boat and go looking for the real me. It seems to be the thing...
...While lying down, the patient is injected with a contrast agent that helps highlight the heart's blood vessels...
...know that excess cholesterol tends to trigger this process in the arteries that feed the heart. Calcium can then build up in the vessels and stiffen them, laying the foundation for heart disease. Getting one's calcium score is as simple as getting a quick injection of a contrast agent in the arm and a zap from an ultrafast X ray, either by electron beam computed tomography (EBCT) or by multidetector CT. Studies show that in every age group people with higher calcium levels have a greater risk of heart attack than do people of the same age with lower...
...contrast, the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences uses a purely electronic system in which students submit their schedules online to a bevy of advisers, each of whom can electronically approve the proposal or request that it be revised...
...Although more than 200 New Zealanders lost their lives alongside their American allies in the nightmare of Guadalcanal in Solomon Islands, most Kiwi casualties were incurred far from home. Australia, in contrast, lost twice as many men in the Pacific as in Europe. During 1942 and 1943, the Imperial Japanese Army was moving south; in New Guinea, then an Australian territory, the Japanese might have expected an easy time against the relatively untrained and under-equipped Australian Militia - all that could be spared in the early days of the jungle campaign...