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Which is what Thesiger has been saying and doing in a big way for more than half a century. His adventures as an explorer and soldier in the legendary tradition of Sir Richard Burton and T.E. Lawrence are recorded in his books Arabian Sands (1959), The Marsh Arabs (1964) and The Last Nomad (1980). These celebrated works are distinguished by a direct and bone-dry style that balances Thesiger's luxuriantly romantic relish for tribal peoples and desolate places. The Life of My Choice says goodbye to all that and good riddance to the 20th century and its airships, land...
...mind, indeed. The quavering romantic nature flops like a landed fish but never expires entirely, our middle-aged boy discovers. Debts pound at the door like crazy firemen; responsibilities rise like dunes on the Cape; girls in their 20s call him Sir (Oh, call me Captain); and still our hero hopes. Will love come to Captain Midlife? Has it been there all along? Stay tuned as the insomniac, not-yet-ancient mariner rests his head on the railing at a Knicks-Bulls game in which he is Air-Jordaning three feet over the rim | one moment and the next eloping...
...from the British trial were less conclusive. In a six-year study of 5,139 physicians, half took 500 mg of aspirin every day. Oxford University researchers found no reduction in heart attacks. They did see, however, a small but troubling excess of strokes. "Some things are clear," says Sir Richard Doll, who led the investigation. "For anybody who has had a heart attack in the past, it is beneficial to take a small dose of aspirin daily. That's unanimous. The dispute is over what healthy people should...
...positive effects of lower doses. In addition, says Boston's Hennekens, the larger U.S. trial was far more conclusive statistically. "If you studied 5,000 doctors," he declares, "you'd have to follow them for 20 years to get the same results." Which report is to be believed? Says Sir Richard: "The truth is probably somewhere in between." In his view, aspirin may help prevent about 25% of heart attacks in healthy individuals...
...First, Sir Patrick Mayhew, the British Attorney General, announced that for reasons of national security no prosecutions would be brought against a group of Ulster police officers involved in the killing of six Catholic civilians in 1982 and 1983. Dublin had expected an investigation into allegations that police were covering up a "shoot to kill" order. Then British jurists dismissed an appeal by six Catholics from Northern Ireland convicted in the 1974 bombing of two Birmingham bars in which 21 people died. In Ireland, the men were believed to have been railroaded...