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Wine is not a drink normally associated with Texas barbecue, which is exactly why Karen MacNeil was at Cooper's Old Time Pit Bar-B-Que in Llano, Texas, pouring bottles of it for a group of ribs-chomping patrons. "Now, that's good. I can't believe that's wine," said a brawny man as he sipped a glass of California sparkling wine in place of his normal beer. MacNeil, author of the best-selling book The Wine Bible and host of a series on wine that debuted in the fall on public television, was delighted. Turning the average...
With heart-disease rates in the U.S. showing no signs of slowing, health officials urged Americans to reduce their cholesterol levels well below those that have been considered normal. The change was prompted by five scientific studies that highlighted the benefits of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs. These studies identified a group of Americans at extremely high risk--among them, people who smoke, have diabetes, have high blood pressure or have suffered at least one heart attack--who could lower their heart-disease risk by cutting their level of LDL, the so-called bad cholesterol, from the previous target of below...
...didn't exercise, according to the Women's Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation. But weight does matter. Researchers in the ongoing Women's Health Study found that overweight and obese women--regardless of how regularly they exercised--were as much as nine times as likely to develop diabetes as women of normal weight. Bottom line? Get active and stay trim...
...process of getting a visa averages about 30 days for people coming from countries that the United States has normal relations with, Emerson said. But he noted that visas from some countries, like Cuba, take longer, but typically not more than a few months...
...interventions fail, brutal Darwinian realism may have to replace cushy Marxian idealism in the fight for normal human relations. A pod-head’s brain can only handle so much stimulation before it becomes fried and requires a long-term break. Until this happens, numbers will dwindle as pod-heads cannot use their sense of hearing to warn against the unexpected car or bus. They’d better watch out when crossing Mass...