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Thirteen years ago, Ridker started studying a new predictor of heart disease, inflammation in the blood, and was able to demonstrate that individuals with this marker were at a higher risk for heart disease. Prior to this, arteriosclerosis, or the hardening of the arteries, had been the principal measure in...

Author: By Jillian K. Kushner, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Study Finds Statins Reduce Heart Disease Risk | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

Eric Holder figured the call could wait. His pager had gone off in the middle of a Washington Wizards game on Jan. 14, 1998. But when a second page came in at 10:18 p.m. with a message marked "Urgent," the then Deputy Attorney General decided to call back. "What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Holder's Role in Lewinsky Probe Get Scrutiny? | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

'Today the school is open, but there are no girls.' MEHMOOD QADERI, principal of the Mirwais Mena girls' school in Kandahar, Afghanistan, after a group of men attacked 15 girls and teachers with acid

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

The first awards ceremony took place at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City on March 16, 1950, co-sponsored by three other literary organizations in a coup of writers awarding other writers. Nelson Algren won in the fiction category for his tragic American hero story, The Man with the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The National Book Awards | 11/19/2008 | See Source »

Though tenure doesn't guarantee lifetime employment, it does make firing teachers a difficult and costly process, one that involves the union, the school board, the principal, the judicial system and thousands of dollars in legal fees. In most states, a tenured teacher can't be dismisssed until charges are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tenure | 11/17/2008 | See Source »

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