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Doctors have known for a decade that statin drugs can prevent or reduce the severity of cardiovascular disease by lowering blood levels of LDL. But how low is low enough? A landmark study of more than 4,000 heart patients compared a standard LDL-lowering regimen (40 mg of Pravachol) with an intensive regimen (80 mg of Lipitor) and found that even though both reduced LDL levels to below the recommended benchmark of 100 mg/dL, the patients on the higher dose were 16% less likely than those on the lower dose to get worse or die. The bottom line: what...
...constantly experimenting to make the TV football experience even better. The new frontier: high-definition broadcasts. Fox already shows six games a week in high def, CBS three, and both ESPN's Sunday-night game and ABC's Monday Night Football are available at higher resolutions. The difference between standard and high definition is striking. With high def, you can recognize faces in the crowd, and the wider screen lets you see that safety backing up into coverage...
...zero tolerance by the start of spring training," vowed Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig in New York City. But that won't be soon enough for Senator John McCain, who upped the outrage meter by vowing that if players and owners can't agree on a stricter testing standard, he will seek to impose one legislatively in January...
...psychologists and biologists and recruited 58 women ranging in age from 20 to 50. Thirty-nine of the women were the primary caregivers for a child chronically ill with cerebral palsy, autism or some other serious disorder; the rest had healthy kids. The researchers gave all the mothers a standard test that measured how stressed out they had been feeling during the previous month. Then they drew blood and examined peripheral blood mononuclear cells, part of the body's immune system...
...most of those years, Jenkins was locked in a drab, hardscrabble existence, sustained only by hope that somehow, someday, he and his family could leave North Korea. The bleakness was tempered somewhat over the years, as Jenkins attained a standard of living better than that of most North Koreans. But it was still far below that of most other countries. The Jenkins house had no hot running water, the electricity frequently did not work, and the heating was so feeble that during winter family members wore five layers of clothing at home. By raising their own chickens and growing their...