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...reason hypertension can be such a stubborn problem is that it involves so many of the body's interlocking systems, and lying at the center of it all is the heart. The heart doesn't so much pour blood through the circulatory system as punch it through, forcing six quarts of heavy liquid beyond the torso and out to remote provinces like the feet, hands and head. Unfortunately, the riptides of the circulatory system are not always kind to the vessels that have to carry the load. Every time the heart contracts, blood not only rushes ahead through the vessels...
...that’s a swell idea! Let’s pour thousands of man-hours into a pointless, second-long display that will be the high point of our college lives...
...Talk about life imitating art. A new chain of American caf?s?modeled on the kitchen in the U.S. sitcom Seinfeld?just sells cereal. Cereality caf?s have cabinets stuffed with 33 types, along with 34 toppings, from dried blueberries to praline coconut. Customers pay $4 a bowl, then choose and pour their own milk: soy, flavored, skim or whole. At the Tempe, Arizona, flagship "Cereologists"?pajama-clad servers?offer plain old cornflakes as well as such fancy concoctions as Devil Made Me Do It, which combines Cocoa Puffs and Lucky Charms with chocolate milk and malt balls...
Critical to that plan is making sure Fallujah stays secure once the insurgents are routed. Toward that end, the Pentagon says money will start to flow into the city as soon as the military operation is over. The Pentagon says it has some $100 million ready to pour into a variety of civil works in Fallujah, including improvements in water, sewage and electrical systems as well as the construction of schools and health clinics. Army Lieut. General Thomas Metz, U.S. ground-forces commander in Iraq, says it will take "weeks, maybe months, to get the city to a normal operating...
...first few days produced success. U.S. forces, led by the members of Task Force 2-2, swept down from the north and punched deep into the city, seizing one of Fallujah's most important assets, Highway 10. The Army's assault opened the way for more forces to pour into the center of Fallujah and advance toward the south of the city, with the intent of delivering a blow to an insurgency that has overrun parts of Iraq. Ripping out the heart of the resistance in Fallujah is a necessary step to prevent the insurgents from tearing the country apart...