Word: heart
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...father who should not be conquered. One afternoon when I was 14, my father, once a powerful and muscular swimmer, ran out of breath as we swam to a float in Cape Cod Bay. Panting like a hooked fish, he leaned on me as we swam back. My heart sank...
...while--is that smoking cigars on a regular basis significantly increases your risk of developing emphysema as well as cancers of the lung, lip, throat and esophagus. Last week the New England Journal of Medicine added to that grim list, reporting that cigar smoking also boosts your risk of heart disease...
Except for oral cancers, the risks for cigar smokers were still lower than those for cigarette smokers--probably because most cigar smokers don't inhale. Intriguingly, however, the increase in their risk of heart disease, as much as 56%, was similar to that found for heavy exposure to "secondhand" smoke--something cigars generate in abundance...
...heart of Mirrorball is drawn from her breakthrough 1994 album, Fumbling Towards Ecstasy. McLachlan's studio voice has a serene balance, like a sailboat on still water; live, she unleashes turbulent gusts of feeling. Her new versions of Hold On, about losing a friend to AIDS, and Possession, about a controlling lover, reveal glimmers of rage that her studio albums only hint at. From her biggest album, 1997's Surfacing, the ode to love gone bad, Do What You Have to Do (which popped up in the Starr report when a certain intern's jottings to the President cited...
PIERCING HEARTACHE There are lots of reasons to think twice about getting a body part pierced--not least of which is pain. But folks with congenital heart disease have an extra worry: for them, piercing raises the risk of developing a heart-valve infection. If you have congenital heart disease and can't resist a naval ring, be sure to ask for preventive antibiotics...