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Until last week, I didn't worry much about heart disease. Although heart attacks, angina and cardiac arrest can strike without warning, the odds are in my favor: I'm not overweight, I don't smoke, my blood pressure is good, I eat a low-fat diet, and I get plenty of exercise. While my grandfather had a heart attack at 60, he lived to be 86. And my father, now 75, hasn't had any cardiac problems at all. My total cholesterol is just a little high at 200. My only real risk factor is (deep sigh...
...drugs. You can bet Merck will be doing further studies to see if people like me would be wise to start taking preventive lovastatin. But for now, I think I'll try to run an extra mile or two each week and cut more saturated fat from my diet. A pill may be easier, but I'd just as soon avoid...
...emerging from Harvard College on the doorstep of the new millennium. We are very tired but also very educated. Life is long. We are armed with expository writing skills, foreign language skills, quantitative reasoning skills and an unassailable body of core knowledge. We have mostly shared a common diet, common living quarters and a common peer group. This makes Harvard neither fascist nor cooperative--it is as little one as the other...
...exponentially greater. And that's not counting the crippling cost of a now inevitable subcontinental arms race. Back in 1974, Pakistani prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto vowed his country would go nuclear even if his people had to "eat grass." Now the nukes are a reality, and the grass diet may be just around the corner...
...hyped expectations. "People always want a quick fix," complains Dr. Domeena Renshaw, a psychiatrist who directs the Loyola Sex Therapy Clinic outside Chicago. "They think Viagra is magic, just like they thought the G spot worked like a garage-door opener." In the wake of fen/phen and Redux, the diet-drug treatments that were pulled from the market last year after it was learned that they could damage heart valves, caution would be advisable with Viagra. But so far the side effects seem comparatively slight and manageable: chiefly headache, flushed skin, upset stomach and curious vision distortions involving the color...