Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...press, for its part, has generally observed a nonaggression pact. Other than a nasty reference on Saturday Night Live and one on Rush Limbaugh's TV show, Chelsea has been left to lead a normal life. Even tabloids like the Weekly World News, which bannered Hillary's adoption of an alien baby, have resisted sending paparazzi to stalk the First Child...
...part of the much larger, ongoing Framingham Study, which since 1948 has poked, prodded and bled two generations of men and women to uncover the roots of heart disease. It could help solve a medical problem that has long frustrated cardiologists: Why do some people with normal cholesterol levels have heart attacks? According to Dr. Andrew Bostom of Tufts University, who led the research team, all the men entered the study with no signs of heart disease. And even today their total cholesterol counts are only slightly elevated, averaging 200 mg/dL. (Women also participated in the research...
...developed premature heart disease--a result comparable to that for men with total cholesterol counts in the danger zone of 240 mg/dL. Blood tests revealed one important reason: as long as the subjects had high levels of Lp(a), it didn't matter if they had normal levels of HDL, the so-called good cholesterol, and LDL, the so-called bad cholesterol...
...results could complicate matters for doctors. No one knows where Lp(a) comes from or what its normal role in the body is. Scientists believe people's Lp(a) levels are 90% determined by their genes. Lp(a) may promote cholesterol buildup on artery walls. But there is no sure way to reduce high levels of it, although the Framingham researchers speculate that aspirin, which thins the blood, may mitigate its effects. Preliminary evidence also suggests that red wine may drive down the levels of Lp(a)--possibly explaining why the French can eat lots of high-fat foods without...
...referred to "other suspects" in the bombing, but some of them, say Washington officials, have a Jewell connection. Bomb components being reconstructed by the feds may someday lead elsewhere. But meanwhile, Jewell and his distraught mother (who was planning her own press conference) "have no semblance of a normal life," says Bryant. Jewell rarely leaves the besieged apartment--not even to walk...