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Times and priorities change. It's disconcerting to the environmentalist to hear the author of This Land Is Your Land sounding like a booster from Houston with a pump jack for a metronome. But the Depression was then. This is now. Political correctness is addicted to committing the sin of anachronism--imposing the current sense of racial and environmental decorum upon earlier times. Consider Thomas Jefferson's descent from Enlightenment philosopher and naturalist to slave master and debaucher of Sally Hemings--a fair enough revisionist correction, if kept in disciplined perspective. Of course, one age's evil is another...
...flow of blood through one or more of the coronary arteries--though the damage from a heart attack can be severe enough to cause heart failure. It's also not cardiac arrest, in which the electrical signals that govern the heart become so disorganized the heart can no longer pump blood through its chambers--though patients with heart failure are at much greater risk of dying from cardiac arrest...
Heart failure occurs when the heart muscle becomes so weakened--either by infection, untreated high blood pressure, heart attack or aging--that it no longer pumps blood efficiently. "The heart can't pump enough blood to meet all the body's needs," is how Dr. Joshua Hare at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in Baltimore, Md., describes it. The problem usually develops over several years, leading to fatigue, shortness of breath and a buildup of fluid, or congestion, in the body. When the degenerative process is sufficiently advanced, a heart transplant may be called...
STRESS-HORMONE BOOST Responding to signals from the hypothalamus and pituitary gland, the adrenal glands pump out high levels of the stress hormone cortisol. Too much cortisol shortcircuits the cells in the hippocampus, making it difficult to organize the memory of a trauma or stressful experience. Memories lose their context and become fragmented...
...Memorial Day wasn't enough to pump your patriotic juices, TIME contributor Roger Rosenblatt offers another charge in Where We Stand: 30 Reasons for Loving Our Country. "I had no idea how deep my admiration for my country went," writes Rosenblatt. "The process of writing was an extension of feelings stemming from Sept. 11, when I teared up day after...