Word: fatales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lowering cholesterol levels markedly reduces the incidence of fatal heart attacks...
...diet, had the highest cholesterol levels and the highest rate of heart disease; the Americans, with a diet only slightly less rich, were a close second. But the Japanese, who eat a diet low in fat, had the lowest cholesterol levels and the least cardiovascular disease. Their rate of fatal heart attacks was one-fourth the American incidence. A later study showed that when Japanese emigrated to the U.S. and adopted a Western diet, their incidence of heart disease soared to ten times that of their countrymen in Japan...
...latest work, this fatal thread becomes the whole cloth, as Tuchman explores the nature of governmental folly and dissects some choice examples: the Renaissance papacy, 18th century England, the 20th century U.S. Folly, as Tuchman defines it, is not simply incompetence or tyranny or hubris, but rather "the pursuit of policy contrary to self-interest." She requires that the policy was perceived as folly in its own time, that a sensible alternative was available, and that the policy nonetheless was carried out by a group over more than one political lifetime. She makes one exception to that last criterion...
...erotic or pastoral turn can long allay the great sorrow of Irish history. Sometimes Heaney confronts it head on, as in "Requiem for the Croppies," composed in memory of the Catholic farm boys who fought the Protestant armies nearly two centuries ago, "on Vinegar Hill, the fatal conclave," where "terraced thousands died, shaking scythes at cannon." Even these acrimonious lines have not satisfied some Irish nationalists who criticize him for refusing to write anti-British broadsides. Counters Heaney: "The job of the artist is to make works of art, not to be involved in one cause or another...
...recounting that when she was deathly ill at age 14, she was visited by Family Friend Valentino, who assured her she would survive and asked her to visit his grave if he should die, saying, "I fear loneliness more than anything in the world." After Valentino's fatal appendicitis at age 31 in 1926, Flame brought 13 roses to his grave every day for three years and then a single red rose on each anniversary of his death for 25 more years...