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...bypasses are most effective. Perhaps blood flow is restricted in the smaller vessels that branch off the coronary arteries. And perhaps the problem isn't plaques at all but the fact that these smaller blood vessels are somehow more prone to spasm, snapping shut at the slightest stress or trigger, cutting off the flow of blood to parts of the heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The No. 1 Killer Of Women | 4/28/2003 | See Source »

...green tea ground to powder. It's mold, a key ingredient that is mixed into the steamed rice and spread onto platforms in a sauna-like, cedar-paneled chamber, where the heat and humidity help the mold spores grow. To this mixture, Doi will add yeast and water to trigger fermentation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Champagnes of Sake | 4/21/2003 | See Source »

...diplomats are used to Pyongyang's scare tactics. Through bluster and provocative moves?including becoming the first country to withdraw from the international nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty?North Korea has spent the last seven months trying to convince the world it is a dangerous military power on a hair-trigger?one that must be appeased at all costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reprocessing Talk | 4/21/2003 | See Source »

...East German state when she catches sight of her son in an antigovernment demonstration. She collapses from a heart attack and falls into a coma. When she regains consciousness eight months later, the communist world has been swept away - but her doctor warns her son that any stress could trigger another heart attack. So he hatches an elaborate plot to convince her that her beloved German Democratic Republic still exists. In Germany, the fall of the Berlin Wall has rarely been played for laughs. But a new film, Goodbye Lenin!, is packing cinemas throughout the country with its wry look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Berlin Wall Lives! | 4/20/2003 | See Source »

...special panel that appears as a cold spot through a thermal sight, add it all together and decide whether the image on the screen is friend or foe. If it's the latter, the crew, under pressure to shoot before being shot at, is likely to pull the trigger--then hope like hell it has not accidentally blasted a group of comrades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fratricide: Misfiring in the Fog | 4/7/2003 | See Source »

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