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...force--"to reassure the good guys and warn the bad guys." He commands his platoons to dismount and walk through the warren of trash-strewn alleyways around the mosque, starting with the most dangerous of them all, a street the Americans have dubbed Terrorist Café. It is lined with lean-tos and shacks that serve as teahouses and kebab stalls, some of them patronized by leaders of the Sunni militant groups that have turned Adhamiya into a hotbed of insurgency in the Iraqi capital--a "Little Fallujah in the middle of Baghdad," in the words of a local shop owner...
...pump to push the blood. Like any other muscle called on to do more work, the heart responds by enlarging, chiefly in the left ventricle, which is its main pumping chamber. Increased muscle mass is fine in the biceps, but it's bad in the heart, which must be lean and flexible to work as it should. Worse, if a person with hypertension has high cholesterol, the deteriorating condition of vessel walls creates rough spots that serve as toeholds for circulating fats. As fat collects into plaques, they can break free, particularly if vessels are repeatedly being slammed by blood...
...thing, increased body mass means higher blood volume, straining the circulatory system. Carrying extra weight also causes the heart to overwork--no favor to a left ventricle that may already be enlarged. Additionally, people who are overweight generally don't get that way eating fruits, vegetables and lean meats; their diet tends to be high in salt, fats and processed foods, just the things hypertension feasts...
Like anyone desiring entry to the Crimson newsroom, natural light must pass a few tests before arriving: it filters through the steel steps that lean over an alley behind the building, then angles into the room through a glass wall of thick square panels. There are no other windows...
It’s no secret that the world of academia—Harvard included—has a decidedly leftward lean. Not even liberals deny this. But what they do often deny is that this overbearing bias is a problem that needs to be addressed. The fact that it is not even seen as a serious concern is indicative of just how deep and institutionalized this political imbalance has become. Things need to change. Bias should be kept to a healthy minimum in the classroom, and schools need to make a much more serious effort to recruit faculty that...