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What makes this research so compelling is that unlike cholesterol, which everyone knows is associated with coronary problems but can often be treated only by medication and a rigid diet, homocysteine appears to respond to nothing more demanding than eating more vegetables and taking a few more vitamins. Homocysteine is certainly not the lone gunman of heart disease, but the studies strongly suggest that it's at least a co-conspirator--and one that patients can do something about. "This is very convincing," says Dr. Jacob Selhub of Tufts University in Boston. "Homocysteine appears to be a risk factor...
...hard to imagine Stewart's innocence as dangerous. The magic moments I treasure most are when his throaty hesitations are melted in a murmur of tenderness--the defensive and rigid store clerk of The Shop Around the Corner confessing his love for Margaret Sullavan, the small-time banker whispering "Mary" over and over while Donna Reed is on the telephone with another...
Even math and science concentrators, who tend to have a more rigid set of required courses for their concentrations, say that they find shopping period invaluable in selecting Cores and electives...
...promoted." Many were also quick to point to the case of the recently discharged Kelly Flinn as evidence that an old boys network rules the Pentagon. Cohen himself has said in the wake of the Flinn incident that the military's rules governing sexual behavior may be too rigid. Cohen is expected to make his recommendation for Joint Chiefs Chair in a week. But growing public outcry may make confirmation difficult, meaning that while conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentlemen may pass the of muster the Defense Secretary, it might not get past the Senate...
Birmingham's Harvard experience did not launch him into graduate school or a rigid career track, but by winning the Rhodes Scholarship in the fall of 1971, he did not have to focus on such future plans...