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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...
...help me live longer, but there's as yet no direct evidence of that or of how much longer. It might turn out that I'd spend a lot of money and suffer side effects in order to add a few months to my life. And if I could lower my cholesterol just by popping a pill, I might be tempted to order that bacon cheeseburger and to sleep in rather than exercise before work, thus negating the drug's benefits...
RALPH ELLISON (1914-1994) His novel Invisible Man (1952) began with the sentence "I am an invisible man" and concluded, "Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?" The words in between brought African-American experiences vividly into the literary mainstream and spurred a renaissance that continues to this...
...song Superstition. "Anyone can play music and have a really satisfying experience," says Eran Egozy, co-founder of Harmonix Music Systems Inc., a Cambridge, Mass., software company specializing in "jamware." By moving your mouse around on a compass-like grid, you can play faster, slower, higher and lower notes--but never out of tune. "You're always in time, in key and playing the right notes," says Egozy, who admits that, mellifluous as it is, "it's not John Coltrane." Still, like flight simulators that let you pilot a jumbo jet, Harmonix's music simulator, he says, "takes the hard...
McLaughlin informed Revolution Coach ThomasRongen of his intention to complete his degreerequirements, and he selflessly expressed hiswillingness to play in the lower A-league ranksfor a time in order to prove his worth. But it wasprecisely this aspect of McLaughlin's attitude,coupled with his ability to play a number ofpositions, that had prompted Rongen and theRevolution to draft McLaughlin...