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Women tend to suffer their first heart attack 10 years older than men. Yet, partly because the women are older, those heart attacks are more often fatal. This is a postmenopausal phenomenon, a trade-off for years of protection from estrogen. Staying bathed in the hormone keeps blood vessels elastic and free of hardened-plaque formations. Estrogen also instructs the liver to churn out more HDL, or good cholesterol, which pulls plaque away from artery walls...
Drugs commonly used to break up clots and stabilize erratic heartbeats are less effective in women than in men. Hormone-replacement therapy-estrogen and progestin-has been shown to help. A U.S.-government study is currently under way that aims to clarify how estrogen works on the heart, brain and breast...
Besides, no one doubted King's guilt; no danger here of running up against the strongest argument opposing the death penalty: you may execute the wrong man. He's the right one, all right. Few will weep when the injection stops King's heart...
DIED. ANDRE DUBUS, 62, short-story craftsman; of a heart attack; in Haverhill, Mass. Dubus published his first novel in 1967. In 1986 he was struck by a car, leaving him wheelchair-bound. He subsequently produced some of his finest stories, notably in the 1996 book Dancing After Hours...
First settled in 1710, New Bern is rich in history. Pirates roamed the coast, and Blackbeard used to stay at Hammock House, in Beaufort, some 40 miles away. The wreckage of his ship Queen Anne's Revenge was recently discovered in waters offshore. In the heart of New Bern is Tryon Palace, once the residence of 18th century English royal governors. The town was a political hotbed during the Revolution and later became the first capital of the state. The red-brick Georgian palace, set on 14 acres of lush gardens and grounds, is among the town's more than...