Word: heart
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Last week, though, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a study that's forcing me to reconsider. It turns out that as many as 6 million Americans could reduce still further their already low risk of heart disease by popping lovastatin, a relatively new cholesterol-controlling drug manufactured by Merck. The big question for each of us, of course, is whether we are among the 6 million...
Results: after five years, subjects on lovastatin had lowered their bad cholesterol and other dangerous blood-borne fats and had boosted their HDL, or "good" cholesterol. And they had a 37% lower incidence of serious heart disease than those who were given placebos, or pills without lovastatin. Though I'm technically too young to qualify, I'm pretty close, and I'm sure the drugs would lower my cholesterol too. I'd be crazy not to start on lovastatin at once. Right...
...muscle damage, both of which could be aggravated the longer I take the stuff. Neither factor would necessarily outweigh lovastatin's benefits. But consider this: while lovastatin reduced "acute major coronary events" more than a third, 90% of those in the placebo group didn't develop such major heart problems either...
...most contented of us can still be overwhelmed unexpectedly by regret for the life not led. She's had torrid affairs but lacks "one single friend from all that ardour." She wishes she had been able to satisfy the longing "that exists in the head and the heart as well as the body," rather than finding herself utterly alone in her 50s, her sexuality fading, a silhouette in danger of becoming a "character." She didn't want to end up unhappy like her overwhelmed mother: married to a charming, philandering journalist who "didn't even take the cigarette...
...ritually religious close ("Shantih, shantih, shantih"), it films a succession of loveless or violent or failed sexual unions--among the educated ("My nerves are bad tonight") and the uneducated ("He, the young man carbuncular, arrives"), and in the poet's own life ("your heart would have responded/ Gaily"). It speaks of an absent God and of a dead father; Eliot's recently dead father had left capital outright to the other children, but permitted his wayward son only the interest on his portion...