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...better handle on what's going on inside a woman's heart, many cardiologists perform an echocardiogram during a treadmill test. Echocardiograms can give doctors a detailed picture of the size, shape and pumping action of the chambers of the heart and of how well the valves are working. If the pumping action looks stiff, doctors know the heart is ailing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The No. 1 Killer Of Women | 4/28/2003 | See Source »

...movie image of the Mob boss as a menacing, broad-shouldered man's man takes a hit in the new thriller Confidence, in which DUSTIN HOFFMAN portrays a quirky crime king of questionable sexuality. Hoffman's character, the King, hires a con man played by Ed Burns to perform a complex heist. "[The director, writer and I] tried to figure out how I could achieve this sense of a frightening character," Hoffman says, "and the idea of sexual ambiguity intrigued me." Hoffman also took some inspiration from choreographer Bob Fosse, with whom he worked on 1974's Lenny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 28, 2003 | 4/28/2003 | See Source »

Richard himself is in nearly every scene, and must perform some of Shakespeare’s most legendary lines—“now is the winter of my discontent” and “my horse, my horse, a kingdom for my horse...

Author: By Nikki Usher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Aztec Emperor ‘Richard’ Begins Mainstage Reign | 4/25/2003 | See Source »

...moratorium comes as students at the College are planning trips for this summer and next year to study and perform thesis research in China and other affected countries...

Author: By Katharine A. Kaplan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Bans Travel to SARS Affected Areas | 4/25/2003 | See Source »

...Screw performing masculinity through one experimental night “in drag,” I think. I perform masculinity all the livelong day. It’s not only my broad shoulders and my assless, boxy build, but also my dogged insistence on breaking the feminine hegemony of tight pants and drooping decolletage. Indeed, toggling between my “real” identity as a woman and my “fake” identity as a man seems to require little more than a declaration of purpose: tonight, having pretty much changed nothing about my appearance...

Author: By Mandy H. Hu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Drag Diary | 4/24/2003 | See Source »

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