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This drive has helped Barrett overcome one of his biggest athletic obstacles, his constant battle with allergies and asthma, which can flare up during the outdoor season...
...barbed Mukamel by asking coolly, “Is that your team? You should have got some of your robots to take part...”—began to reel off the reasons for the friction, but didn’t get past Harvard’s flare for poaching MIT’s faculty before being interrupted by his combative counterpart...
...Army, supported by American air power, battled militants outside the Shi'a holy city of Najaf last weekend it seemed at first like just another episode in the country's history of violence: a fight with Sunni insurgents bent on bloodying the Shi'a commemoration of Ashura, or a flare-up in the simmering battle between Shi'a political movements and militias...
...special effects, and though he shot in color, he printed the movie on high-contrast black-and-white stock. He even dug up antique lenses, of the kind directors were obliged to use a half-century ago. By golly, if he shoots into the sun, he gets lens flare. He induced Thomas Newman to write a lush symphonic score in something like the Max Steiner mode and encouraged his actors to perform in the old presentational manner, as if they'd never heard of Stanislavsky, much less Dr. Freud...
Statins have earned areputation lately as a wonder drug. Not only do they protect against heart disease by controlling the amount of cholesterol the liver churns out, but they can also dampen the inflammatory flare-ups that contribute to everything from arthritis to heart attacks. Early studies even hint that statins may also work on the plaques and tangles that cause Alzheimer's disease. But all drugs have their limits. An analysis of 12 trials found that patients who had taken statins within two weeks of having a heart attack or angina did not reduce their risk of dying...