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Sakurov’s technical innovation is meta-historical argument: a refutation and rejection of Eisenstein, a reconsideration of Russia from czarism, through communism, to the present...
...primarily concerned with the propriety of mass e-mails and Masterly etiquette toward House residents in general. This community seems incapable of engaging in a serious and sustained discussion about the war. Instead, our polite aversion to moral gravity turns every such opening into a meta-debate until we are bored away from the subject altogether...
...other studies have failed to find any increase in risk at all. Now comes a report in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association that may go a long way toward reconciling this paradox. By doing a meta-analysis (a combined statistical analysis of many previous studies), a team led by Dr. Robert Clarke of Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, England, has deduced that homocysteine is a risk factor--but not a huge one, at least for most healthy people. The latest results say that reducing homocysteine levels in the blood 25% lessens the risk of heart disease...
...those who have a family history of heart disease are much more likely to suffer a heart attack. For them, even a modest decrease in cardiac risk can pay big dividends. Moreover, some people have a genetic mutation that reduces levels of a homocysteine-eating enzyme. A second meta-analysis, out of the Netherlands and also reported in last week's JAMA, shows that the mutation raises heart-disease rates 16%--and thus makes the impact of homocysteine reduction correspondingly greater...
...point where all I could think about was just writing the damn thing. I wanted to explore avant garde theater and dance...but in the end, I was mostly inspired by the crazy process of making the play itself. I saw that the whole enterprise of meta, avant garde, absurdist art is pretty funny, I think, and so is having an actor in an bunny costume. The inspiration for that came from the fact that I like bunnies...