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...PILL Don't base your decision about whether to take birth-control pills solely on this finding, but an analysis of 40 years of data shows that taking low-dose estrogen formulations nearly doubles the odds of suffering a stroke. Worse, women on high-dose estrogen face a nearly threefold increased risk. A worry to be sure, but not a big one: the odds of a stroke among women of reproduction age are tiny to begin with--about...
...coffee (lots of coffee), and entertainment by a magician in a cape and wizard's hat. All of the employees of the store were in costume as characters from the book. Just before midnight, the manager climbed up on a table to lead the "countdown." Right at the stroke of twelve, employees started opening boxes and passing books into the outstretched hands of hundreds of children and adults. It's wonderful to see so many kids so excited about a book. Many of them opened the book and started reading immediately, curled up in chairs, and laying down on benches...
...driver unloaded the other kids for the day but left Destiny in the van. She was discovered 5 1/2 hours later, still strapped into her child seat. The temperature inside the van had reached 112[degrees]; Destiny died of massive swelling of the brain caused by heat stroke...
...than 430,000 people who suffered heart attacks across the U.S., Canto and his colleagues determined that there are six major risk factors that increase the chances that any heart attack you suffer will be atypical: having a weak heart (from congestive heart disease), diabetes or a history of stroke; being 65 or older, female or from a minority group. The increased risk is cumulative: if a 75-year-old black woman has a heart attack, her chances of experiencing chest pain are less than...
...recognize the moment; we have all, at one time or another, felt the shock and disbelief of the decisive stroke that alters everything. It strikes the famous and the obscure impartially. I knew an aged cowboy in West Texas, with the unlikely name of Cecil, who was driving down a highway one morning and took his eyes off the road in order to reach for his tobacco pouch, and veered fatally into the path of an eighteen-wheeler...