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...medical mystery. In the summer of 2008, a man and woman, both in their 20s and both cocaine users, were separately admitted to a Canadian hospital with unremitting fevers, flulike symptoms and dangerously low white-blood-cell counts. Their symptoms were consistent with a life-threatening immune-system disorder called agranulocytosis, which kills 7% to 10% of patients and is rare except in chemotherapy patients and those taking certain antipsychotic medications...
...average American man consumes 10.4 g of salt each day; the average woman, 7.3 g. The daily recommended amount, according to government nutrition experts, is 6 g. That means that even if most men were to cut 3 g of salt out of their diet each day, they would still be consuming more than the recommended daily allowance of sodium. (See the top 10 new diet books...
Respected in the realms of both academia and popular culture, Segal was a man who worked both inside and outside of the proverbial ivory tower. Having produced several acclaimed scholarly works on Greek and Roman literature over the course of his academic career, Segal also wrote bestselling novels and screenplays for popular films, including the script for the 1968 animated Beatles feature “Yellow Submarine...
...year-old Brown won Cosmopolitan magazine's "America's Sexiest Man" contest and appeared nude in the June 1982 issue. Cosmo described him as "strong but huggable...
...political caricatures seethed with outrage, the man himself was gentle--he was happiest in a museum, studying Titian and Tintoretto, or with friends at his Wednesday-night life-drawing class, which he co-hosted for half a century...