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...blood efficiently. "The heart can't pump enough blood to meet all the body's needs," is how Dr. Joshua Hare at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in Baltimore, Md., describes it. The problem usually develops over several years, leading to fatigue, shortness of breath and a buildup of fluid, or congestion, in the body. When the degenerative process is sufficiently advanced, a heart transplant may be called...
...also linked to infertility. Now researchers think it may be preventable. A fascinating though preliminary study suggests that women who use tampons or who have sex when they are menstruating significantly reduce their risk of getting the disease. How? The latest thinking is that endometriosis develops because menstrual fluid backs up and travels to the ovaries, Fallopian tubes and outer surface of the womb, where it takes root. Having sex--more specifically, having an orgasm--causes the uterus to contract, pushing out the fluid. And tampons? They seem to act like a wick, drawing fluid out. The findings...
Though in his academic and professional life Packer specialized in highly technical subjects—such as his thesis on fluid dynamics—he felt at ease in the humanities and could easily explain his own work in layman’s words, said Ronald M. Soiefer ’75, a college friend...
...result. Next-generation cleaning gadgets like the Swiffer Wet Jet mop are making it easier to do backbreaking chores in no time. The Swiffer uses disposable cleaning pads (they pick up more grime and don't need wringing) instead of conventional mop locks and has a container of cleaning fluid built right into the handle. Pull on the mop's trigger, and a motor shoots fluid onto the floor while you swab. Bid farewell to hands-and-knees scrubbing and toting heavy buckets of messy mop water. --By Roy B. White
Plus, demand was as pent up as Peter Parker's web fluid, thanks to a tangled situation that tied up the movie in legal wrangling among various large (MGM, Sony and Viacom) and small entities (B-movie house the Cannon Group) that each laid claim to tiny parts of Spidey. "Spider-Man was plagued by bad deals, litigation and ownership that obviously wasn't capable of pulling off a movie of this magnitude. Thank God, because if they had done a Spider-Man movie in the mid-'80s, it would have been Cheesy-Man," says Arad...