Word: longing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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QUEEN OF HEARTS. On a next-to-nothing budget, this criminally pleasurable panorama depicts a teeming gallery of Italians in postwar London. Funny, ambitious and a mite too long, Queen of Hearts laces pearls on a shoestring...
Nonetheless, the new findings have intensified debate about whether diuretics should remain a first-line option for treating high blood pressure. Many doctors support continued widespread use, arguing that newer, alternative drugs are more expensive and that their long-term side effects have not been as well established. But others are pressing for more restricted use of water pills. At the least, say some, patients who have diabetes probably should not be taking diuretics...
...lifetime can have unintended and perhaps dangerous side effects. The well-established anticholesterol drugs, including cholestyramine and nicotinic acid, seem to be relatively safe, but they can produce such discomforts as nausea and intestinal pain. Newer drugs, like the heavily promoted lovastatin, may be better tolerated, but their long-term safety and effectiveness have not been established. Moreover, reducing cholesterol too far may carry some risk. Some studies, not yet confirmed, have shown a link between abnormally low cholesterol levels and increased danger of cancer and stroke...
Some of these circuits are long and slow, so that consequences may take years or generations to manifest themselves. That helps sustain the cowboy myth that nature is a neutral, unchanging backdrop. Moreover, evolution seems to have wired our brains to respond to rapid changes, the snap of a twig or a movement in the alley, and to ignore slow ones. When these consequences do start to show up, we don't notice them. Anyone who has ever been amazed by an old photograph of himself or herself can attest to the merciful ignorance of slow change, that is, aging...
...need the faith to fly the planet collectively by our instruments and not by the seat of our pants. In the West we need the faith and courage to admit the bitter truth, that our prosperity is based as much on cheap energy as on free markets. A long- postponed part of the payment for that energy and prosperity is coming due if we want to have any hope of dissuading the Chinese and the rest of the Third World from emulating us and swaddling the planet with fumes and wastes...