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...some of this achievement seems fortuitous or fortunate, that, to devout King George, is nonetheless satisfactory and perfectly explainable as a righteous working of God's will. A word which rises often and with perfect sincerity to the King's lips is the short word...
...predict, before the appearance of any symptoms, which of their patients are likely to have a heart attack. The Framingham Risk Score--which measures such variables as age, sex, smoking history, cholesterol level, blood pressure and diabetes--has helped doctors in the past, but it's not perfect. By combining the Framingham scores with advanced heart-imaging technology, scientists have found, physicians can significantly improve their ability to identify patients at risk. Known as the coronary-artery calcium score, the imaging data come from specialized CT scans of heart vessels that pick up calcium deposits around which plaques can form...
To see the future of transportation in Texas, you have to drive out to the prairie north of Austin, past the sprawling plants of Dell and Samsung, to the farthest suburbs, where wild grass and cornfields nuzzle up to McMansions with their perfect green lawns. There, giant earthmovers, their wheels taller than a Texan in his boots, are ripping up the gummy, black soil to lay a 49-mile stretch of concrete tollway. State Highway 130, at a cost of $1.5 billion, is the biggest highway project under way in the U.S. today. It is also the first test...
...says Betsy Taylor, president of New American Dream, a nonprofit that runs a website called SimplifytheHolidays.org A 2002 survey by Taylor's organization found that 77% of adults polled said they wanted a "more simplified" holiday season. "We went through a period where everything had to be Martha Stewart perfect," Taylor explains, "but now there's a countertrend where people want to spend less time trying to find a parking space at the mall and more time actually enjoying the holiday with loved ones...
Fresh off a year of designing this page of FM and so many others, Caitlin will bring her eye for the perfect glance box and the ideal cover design (plus her drawing talents) to the FM executive board next year. Don’t get in this Creative Director’s way as she pushes through with plans to make every page fan-freaking-tastic...