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...White House. I was moving down a reception line and [the Prime Minister of] Singapore grabbed my hand and looked down the line about 30 feet to his wife and yelled, "Hey, honey, look, it's the M*A*S*H guy!" It's a damn good thing I wasn't chewing...
...body's interlocking systems, and lying at the center of it all is the heart. The heart doesn't so much pour blood through the circulatory system as punch it through, forcing six quarts of heavy liquid beyond the torso and out to remote provinces like the feet, hands and head. Unfortunately, the riptides of the circulatory system are not always kind to the vessels that have to carry the load. Every time the heart contracts, blood not only rushes ahead through the vessels but also presses against the walls. That pulse is the systolic pressure, the first number...
...sinister thing about hypertension is that most of the creeping harm it does happens without the patient's knowing it. People with malignant hypertension may experience such symptoms as headaches or coldness in the hands and feet, but they also may not. People with less severe hypertension may experience nothing at all until calamity strikes. One of the commonest of those pressure-related disasters is heart attack. The higher pressure climbs, the harder the heart has to pump to push the blood. Like any other muscle called on to do more work, the heart responds by enlarging, chiefly...
Strahan says that on January 20, 2001, he was conducting research for his environmental group GreenWorld at a computer terminal at the HLS Library; he was then approached by a Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) officer who asked to see identification, then forced him to his feet and against a wall before frisking and handcuffing him, he says. The officers then arrested Strahan for trespassing and said he was not allowed in the library again...
...responding to questions about his identification. Asked to put down a pen he was holding, Strahan refused, at which point the HUPD officer removed the pen from his hand. According to the arrest report, Strahan began moving his hand toward his backpack, so the officer helped him to his feet and handcuffed...