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...Such uncertainties will be with us for the foreseeable future, dampening spending and investment, and leaving regions prone to sporadic panics. The last thing the public needs right now is another threat on people's minds, but a little more attention to rapid climate change is in order. In an uncertain world, the first order of business is to know what to worry about...
...learned he had published one book, entitled A Pop Culture Encyclopedia but have looked through HOLLIS extensively and have been unable to find it. An alum (his graduating year I do not know), the man went only by the title “The Expert” and was prone to philosophical spouts. He’d look across the room at nothing in particular and say, “There’s no ‘I’ in cream.’ Only team-players check their G-spots at the door...
...major arteries of the heart, where angiograms are performed and bypasses are most effective. Perhaps blood flow is restricted in the smaller vessels that branch off the coronary arteries. And perhaps the problem isn't plaques at all but the fact that these smaller blood vessels are somehow more prone to spasm, snapping shut at the slightest stress or trigger, cutting off the flow of blood to parts of the heart...
What that means in practical terms depends a lot on how physically active you are. Star athletes who have not built up their core strength have slower reaction times and are more prone to injury. Office workers whose trunk muscles have turned to flab behind their desks are apt to suffer chronic back pain. Older folks with poor core strength are likely to lose their balance and fall...
...MIGHTY WIND. Anyone who sits through A Mighty Wind, writer/director Christopher Guest’s latest entry in the mockumentary subgenre, will be tempted to make comparisons to Guest’s earlier work, This Is Spinal Tap. While Tap focuses on the disaster-prone tour of a brainless metal band, Wind centers around a disaster-prone tribute concert in memory of a late, legendary folk music producer. The premise is just the sort of odd episode that Guest has mined so skillfully in the past, but this time around he maintains little of the comic consistency that...