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...largest studies of women's health ever undertaken. More than 160,000 post-menopausal women ages 50 to 79 were recruited into a variety of trials designed to find the best ways to prevent heart disease, breast and colorectal cancers, and osteoporosis. Thanks to the study's rigid design, most doctors view the WHI as the definitive word on women's health. Final results were due out--and eagerly awaited--in 2005. But one part of the study, involving more than 16,000 women, was halted last week. These women were taking a combination of estrogen and progestin called hormone...
...making the film was hell. Jiang's rigid perfectionism prolonged the shooting by months. Some days he wouldn't film because he didn't know what he wanted. Jiang's assistant director for Heat, Fu Jia, now an executive at Columbia Pictures' office in Beijing, was so scarred by the experience she hasn't worked on the set of a movie since. "It was a nightmare," she shudders. As the shooting of the summer idyll ran into winter, Jiang had freezing actors in summer clothes eating ice cream before takes so that their frosted breath wouldn't appear on film...
...same can be said of the entire squad. Japan plays extroverted football, displaying not just rigid discipline but poetry, creativity and opportunism. "They do what they want to do quite freely," says Yasuhiko Okudera, Japan's first great soccer player who made his mark in the German Bundesliga in the 1970s. Now 50, Okudera is naturally thrilled for Japan, though he's not quite sure what to make of the Cup team personalities. "One of my German friends asked me, 'Why do they dye their hair like that?' I didn't know what to tell him," Okudera says...
...diagnosis of depression, I would say he or she does too. There are certainly milder states of depression that people go through and get over without help. There's a tendency to feel that the only thing older people can benefit from is medication, that somehow they're too rigid in their personalities or set in their ways that they couldn't be helped by something other than medication. For severe depression, they will need medication, but they can also benefit from psychotherapy. WHAT SHOULD YOU DO IF YOU SUSPECT A PARENT OR AN OLDER FRIEND IS SUICIDAL...
...work about 20 hours a week and receive weekly paychecks. Also, their compensation is calculated to meet the minimum wage, and taxes are deducted. To distinguish RAs from the graduate students at UMass-Lowell who had not been deemed employees, the commission pointed to the fact that RAs undergo rigid training and supervision, including exit interviews if they are terminated. It concluded that the university’s interest in RAs is primarily in the services RAs provide—services that are completely divorced from academic duties...