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Casting more doubt on the power of fish oil, a European study finds that the supplement offers no protection against irregular heart rhythm in patients with implanted defibrillators. After taking 2 g of fish oil daily for a year, 30% of patients had life-threatening arrhythmia or died, compared with 33% of the placebo group...
...time needed to make it. It takes about eight heartbeats to get a complete picture, but sophisticated computer software makes it possible for images to be taken at precisely the same part of the cardiac cycle--ensuring that the heart is in the same position. The downside: people with irregular heartbeats aren't the best candidates for cardiac...
That kind of work gave Tuttle the insight crucial to his later career: that meaning could be achieved with the bare minimum of means. It paved the way for later pieces like New Mexico, New York #14, in which a looping form is superimposed on an irregular rectangle with a flap that resembles an envelope. In a sense, it is an envelope--what looks at first like a minimalist abstraction is also a yearning road picture, a conflation of the circuit Tuttle travels between his homes in New York and New Mexico and the letters he writes to keep...
...great many of them were homely--lousy craftsmanship, ill-used sites, confused, graceless. All of which makes a new Omaha development called West Fair-acres Village especially promising. The architects, John Goldman and Daniel Solomon, have designed housing the old-fashioned way, comfortably dense, with a pleasantly irregular street grid and just enough stylistic variation. The basic model is an adapted Craftsman bungalow, circa 1920, but a buyer of a one-story house can mix and match from among four brick porches and four compatible timber gable ends...
Although scientists will be interpreting Giotto's data for months to come, Horst Keller, principal investigator of the camera team, announced some preliminary results. Halley's nucleus appeared to be 9.4 miles long and at least 2.5 miles wide, he said, and the surface, "velvet black and very irregular, with an indentation in the middle, like a peanut or a potato." On one side of the nucleus were what appeared to resemble nozzles, spewing out one minor and two major jets of gas and dust. Keller was puzzled by the blackness of the nucleus, which suggested that there is little...