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...cover of a MacColl song, as is the Lemonheads’ B-side “He’s on the Beach”). While some press releases for the album have called her a folkie, it wouldn’t be right to lump the versatile MacColl into the cliche of the female folk singer-songwriter; Tropical Brainstorm is Latin-inspired, she’s written songs with Johnny Marr of the Smiths (and sang backup for them) and “They Don’t Know” is pure 60s girl group, a late-1970s...
...Clots can form at various points in the leg, causing varying degrees of discomfort. ?You?ve got valves four-to-six inches up all of your veins,? says Kesteven. With DVT, ?you may form a little lump of a clot behind one of the valves.? Although the clots themselves are not life-threatening, the complications can be. The most serious is a pulmonary embolism?which occurs in 25-30% of DVT cases?when a piece of the clot breaks off and travels to the lung. In rare instances, part of a clot may lodge in other organs, including the brain...
...finding it increasingly difficult to schedule routine mammograms in anything less than four to eight weeks. Some major imaging centers--notably in New York and Florida--have shut their doors. Others, squeezed by fee structures set by Medicare or managed care, are curtailing services. If you have a suspicious lump or other symptoms, you will usually be seen within a few days, but if you want to spot the smallest tumors--those that give you a 90% or better chance of long-term survival--you are simply going to have to wait your turn...
...helps you in any way at all. But in those months, it became arguably the most important activity in my life. Certainly it was the most fun. And I looked forward to Haru coming over with another 20,000-yen baggie of shabu, the drug resembling a little, oily lump of glass. Then we would smoke, at first only on weekends but soon we began to do it on weekdays, whenever I had a free evening. At first only with my friends. Then sometimes I smoked alone. Then mostly alone...
...hike). We also know that only 50 percent of Harvard students are on Harvard aid. Twenty percent receive federal aid and work-study but not Harvard money. Those students, who don't qualify as "needy" are, to some degree, the middle class. Harvard has a tendency to lump these two groups together when it claims that 70 percent of Harvard students receive financial...