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...scene looks normal enough. A group of teachers sit talking quietly in an empty room in a brand-new, cavernous school. Drinking bad instant coffee, they chat about everything from a problem student?"God, I hope we're not going to get him next year"?to furniture for their staff room. One instructor, Elena Kasumova, leafs through a small questionnaire she gave some 11-year-olds 18 months ago. The first question was, "What do you fear most?" Spiders, answered one girl. Low grades, another. The loss of someone close to me, wrote a third...
...scene at the new school is about as close to normal as you get in Beslan. A year on, the small North Ossetian town remains deeply wounded?and bitterly divided. Survivors are still struggling with grief and anger, physical and psychological pain. Vitriolic disputes have broken out between survivors and the families of those who died, with allegations of cowardice sprayed on walls and lives ruined by whispering campaigns. Lidia Tsaliyeva, the school's 73-year-old principal, has been a main target. Fellow hostages say she played a heroic role during the ordeal, but others have made her into...
...Every year 145,000 new cases of colorectal cancer are diagnosed, and unless the disease is diagnosed early, the prognosis isn't great. For now, your best bet is to limit red meat and processed meat in particular--both have been linked to colorectal cancer--and to maintain a normal body weight. And although no one likes to talk about it, beginning at age 50 you need to schedule a regular screening test such as a colonoscopy or flexible sigmoidoscopy. --With reporting by A. Chris Gajilan/New York...
...otherwise seems fine. The biggest concerns are that she might be having a heart attack, that her aorta may have developed a tear or that she has a major clot in the blood vessels of the lungs. Any of these could swiftly be deadly. Her electrocardiogram comes back normal, and blood tests indicate no cardiac damage. With no compelling reason to suspect a heart attack, it's hard to make the case for ordering a cardiac catheterization. But because she continues to complain of chest pains, doctors are reluctant to send her home. So they keep her under observation, waiting...
...then, in addition to trying to get your LDL cholesterol level under 70 mg/dL, he or she is probably going to put you on a daily aspirin regimen and make sure your blood pressure is nice and low. "Conversely," says Cannon, "if you have a scan and you're normal, you don't have to start taking five different medications...