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...morning-after” pill (its more common name) is essentially a high dose of the hormones in conventional birth control pills. If taken within 72 hours of intercourse, emergency contraception can reduce a woman’s risk of becoming pregnant by between 75 and 99 percent. Like regular birth control pills, it inhibits ovulation, fertilization and implantation—but will not affect an existing pregnancy. The Alan Guttmacher Institute estimates that 51,000 abortions were prevented in 2000 due to better access to and better knowledge of emergency contraception...
Pacing the regular starters at the bat is Don Richards, who has been pounding the pill at a .344 loop. His hitting has picked up in the past three weeks since football practice ended, and he is back in left field and the clean-up spot in the batting order...
Millions of Americans already take a drug to lower their LDL, or bad cholesterol, but if things go Pfizer's way, they may end up adding a pill that raises HDL, the good cholesterol that helps keep arteries clean. A study in the current New England Journal of Medicine reports that the drug torcetrapib boosted HDL levels 46%. When it was combined with the LDL-lowering drug Lipitor, the results were even more dramatic: HDL levels rose 61%, and LDL fell even more than it did with Lipitor alone. But will raising HDL levels mean lower rates of heart disease...
...first album was Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Morissette. I bought it two years after it blew up, my freshman year of high school in 1997. The album itself means nothing to me. I suppose it was empowering to a lot of people, but I couldn’t have cared less about the trials and tribulations of dating Uncle Joey from “Full House...
...Jagged Little Pill no longer seems relevant, not only because we’ve all aged but because its verse-chorus-verse, its hooks, were always more important than its “content.” They’re old now. I’ve never understood how lyrics could single-handedly overshadow boring music. The value placed on music’s literary aspect seems to ignore the fact that music, as the Bomb Squad put it, is nothing more than organized noise. If music is powerful because it’s immediate, because it?...