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Preventing future assaults also requires that the College inform students about attacks as quickly as possible after they occur. In recent weeks, HUPD and College administrators took the important step of e-mailing safety advisories directly to students, bypassing the unreliable, trickle-down flow of e-mails from HUPD to University officials to tutors and proctors. By contacting students directly, the College ensures that all students are privy to vital safety information in a timely manner. This new practice should become standard policy...
...There's just one problem with that explanation: sometimes it's dead wrong. Indeed, half of all heart attacks occur in people with normal cholesterol levels. Not only that, as imaging techniques improved, doctors found, much to their surprise, that the most dangerous plaques weren't necessarily all that large. Something that hadn't yet been identified was causing those deposits to burst, triggering massive clots that cut off the coronary blood supply. In the 1990s, Ridker became convinced that some sort of inflammatory reaction was responsible for the bursting plaques, and he set about trying to prove...
...Democrats from key decisions, as happened on the Medicare legislation. At the same time, Daschle plans to impose more party discipline. Democrats who supported the Republican Medicare bill, for example, will not be given seats on the Senate Finance Committee, which writes health-care legislation, when the next vacancies occur...
...scared should you be? All of the human victims so far caught the virus from exposure to infected chickens. There's no evidence yet that bird flu is being spread from humans to humans, which would make this virus infinitely more ominous. Should that occur, experts warn of a global pandemic far worse than SARS, which killed 800 people worldwide. Mutating viruses are frighteningly unpredictable, but mass cullings of poultry should help to avert a pandemic...
Other companies, such as XCOR Aerospace of Mojave, Calif., hope to start test flights this year. Company head Jeff Greason says the space-tourism market would probably account "for the largest volume of flights we anticipate." But when those blast-offs might occur, and at what price, remains a galactic unknown...