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What puts women at risk after menopause? The leading theory holds that they lose their protection against heart attacks because of a drastic reduction in the female hormone estrogen. That might result in the rapid buildup of plaque on artery walls where, until menopause, very little existed. "When estrogen levels drop, you've just lost your best friend," says Dr. William Castelli, director of the long-running Framingham Heart Study...
...reach France until 1936, when the Popular Front government of Premier Leon Blum imposed worker-friendly reforms, including higher salaries, paid vacations and a 40-hour workweek. Still suffering from the Great Depression, the French middle class felt threatened by the worker privileges and contributed to Blum's rapid demise...
Greg Porter adds to this mix with consistent, rapid-fire bass playing. He also collaborates with Nash to write emotional, from-the-heart lyrics. Like alternative rock singers Black Francis (of the Pixies) and Thurston Moore (of Sonic Youth), Nash has the ability to switch her voice from a peaceful lullaby one moment to a rage-filled shriek the next. Her voice quietly draws in the listener before overwhelming with her sheer power...
...more of what it does best: free trade. The E.C.'s single-market project will soon allow the virtual free flow of capital, goods and labor within the Twelve. Speaking last month in Washington, Margaret Thatcher made the case for a rapid widening of the single market. First, east to its European neighbors. And then boldly west -- to North America...
More than 2,000 of the Chinese Communist Party's faithful gathered for their 14th Congress and dutifully applauded the concept. The socialist system, said party chief Jiang Zemin, depends on rapid economic growth. At a news conference, Hong Hu, vice minister of an economic-reform commission, was asked to define the socialist market economy. "It is," Hong replied, "a market economy that is subject to the regulation of a socialist country...