Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...point on which there is no argument is the importance of treating patients who, like the men in the study, have extremely high cholesterol levels. But doctors differ somewhat on when to sound the alarm. Some believe that anyone with a reading over 200 mg should cut back on fat and cholesterol: that would include more than half the U.S. population. A less extreme view is that only people with levels above 240 mg should receive serious attention. Says Rifkind: "People in this group represent only 20% of the population, but they suffer 40% of the heart attacks...
...child's cholesterol was at nearly nine times the normal level for someone her age. It had already taken a toll on her blood vessels, as the doctor learned when he held a stethoscope to her neck and legs. There, instead of silence, he heard the ominous, whooshing sound of blood struggling to get through blocked arteries...
...everywhere. And they've been shipping guns to terrorist groups all over the world, and moreover they are planning a series of assassinations and uprisings which will soon catapult the military into power. Converse is cynical, after all he's got his cozy lawyer's world and it does sound like a paranoid's fantasy, but then the friend drops a name--General George Marcus Delavane (read mad antagonist). This man Converse hates--Delavane sent him on a suicide mission in Vietnam that landed him in a Vietnamese concentration camp (read haunted past). Delavane sent thousands of kids to their...
Lang, now a visiting professor of mathematics on leave from Yale draws attention from colleagues for his energy, his scientific skills and his startling modes of communication. "He has an extremely strong and sound reputation that will at times be modified by comments on him as a person," says Roland J. Liebert, associate professor of sociology at the University of Illinois and a former NSF official...
DIED. William Powell, 91, suave actor whose resonant voice and easygoing elegance made him the movies' pre-eminent American gentleman; in Palm Springs, Calif. His silky good looks and pencil-thin mustache first got him typed as a villain in silent films, but when sound arrived, Powell became an expert at sophisticated comedy, appearing in such films as My Man Godfrey, The Great Ziegfeld (both 1936) and most unforgettably the six Thin Man movies (1934-47), in which he and Co-Star Myrna Loy were Nick and Nora Charles, the models for dozens of witty Hollywood sleuths to follow...