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...much more Mean Streets than Manhattan. "You couldn't get a cab to take you down there," she recalls of her Tribeca neighborhood. But she fell in with a community of artists and made money fixing up loft spaces with Philip Glass, who was driving a cab by day and performing at night. "I would sand the floors and put up these Sheetrock walls, and [he] would do the plumbing," she says. "And I'd tell Philip, 'You have to sign these pipes. You're going to be really famous.' He was like, 'Aw, shut...
...that doesn't necessarily mean that genes aren't playing any role in heart disease. In fact, given that family history is significantly predictive of an individual's heart-disease risk, genes are likely a very important component of that risk profile. It's just that our current screening tools are already capturing much of this genetic contribution. "This study reflects the fact that genetic influences can be controlled through lifestyle," says Dr. Lori Mosca, director of preventive cardiology at New York Presbyterian Hospital...
...love interest introduces herself. It then breaks into an eight-part narrative, in which each part chronicles a different night that the unnamed narrator spends with Clara. He meets her while lurking behind the tree at a Christmas party and is instantly and fatally drawn towards her. Smart and mean, Clara scintillates with brilliance and bristles with animosity and fragility. She and the protagonist constantly dance around each other as they try unsuccessfully to achieve intimacy...
...some of the best mainstream jazz musicianship on today’s scene. The concert wasn’t hip, and it certainly didn’t draw the young audience the organizers had hoped for, but the atmosphere was upbeat and the musicians, at their best, swung mean...
...CFPA would actually weaken consumer protection. Nobody is defending the recent performance of the Federal Reserve, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) or any of the other financial agencies with current consumer-protection duties. But that doesn't necessarily mean those duties should be transferred to a brand-new bureaucracy. As JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has been asking privately: If my legal department screws up, do I create a new legal department? Some bank lobbyists argue that consolidating all consumer protection in just one new agency would be like leaving just one rookie cop patrolling...