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Avalanches are common in the area in winter—the White Mountains see about 100 every year—and a moderate avalanche warning was posted at the ravine on Friday morning. Most avalanche deaths occur in moderate avalanche hazards, Joosen said...
...doctor the best way to avoid a heart attack, and he will probably tell you to lower your cholesterol and exercise more. What he's not likely to tell you is that despite cholesterol's well-earned reputation as the heart's primary nemesis, half of all heart attacks occur in people with normal cholesterol levels. That's because though scientists have identified some 250 other risk factors, from obesity to gum disease, they have never found a better indicator of the health of one's cardiovascular system than the levels of good and bad cholesterol in the blood...
Those long odds got a boost last week when the FDA approved the first consumer-friendly device designed to restart hearts in the home, where 70% of cardiac arrests occur. The HeartStart Home Defibrillator, manufactured by Philips Electronics, is similar to other so-called automated external defibrillators (AEDs) that you may have seen in casinos or airports. The machines deliver the same electrical shock as those paddles doctors use in the hospital--and without which no medical television show worth its Nielsens could long survive...
...with other concentrations, the formulation of a dramatic arts concentration must be a carefully planned process that occurs over a few years and includes the input of students, faculty and members of theater departments from outside Harvard. Practically, the realization of a dramatic arts department would best occur in the context of the ongoing curricular review. The attainment of such a concentration would sufficiently provide drama-oriented students with the appropriate resources and thus benefit Harvard academics, theater and the community at large...
...particularly to occur in nervous people, and in people who are under a nervous strain,” Lee wrote to Gay on April 13. “Wilcox tells me that after his urticaria was largely over he rather went to pieces nervously, and had what may be best described as an hysterical attack. That fits in with the picture very well. He lost his hour examinations and is quite upset about his work. His mother wants to take him home for a rest. I certainly agree that he should go home and get himself straightened out nervously...