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Ever since the 1700s, when doctors discovered bony material in heart vessels, physicians have known that some blood-vessel cells can morph into bony tissue. Now we know that excess cholesterol tends to trigger this process in the arteries that feed the heart. Calcium can then build up in the vessels and stiffen them, laying the foundation for heart disease. Getting one's calcium score is as simple as getting a quick injection of a contrast agent in the arm and a zap from an ultrafast X ray, either by electron beam computed tomography (EBCT) or by multidetector CT. Studies...
...NRDC, "but it's too early to send it home from the hospital without adequate precautions." In particular, she suggests that the states won't spend enough money to monitor the bears, that efforts to make hunters clean up after themselves won't work and that the trigger mechanisms for relisting the grizzly are inadequate--they don't, for example, kick in when the bears' favorite food supply, the seeds of the whitebark pine, succumbs to disease or insects. "[The FWS does] do reviews," she says. "There's nothing that says they have to do anything to respond...
...Hollywood's stereotypes about rappers. One measure of his success arrives this Friday. In Four Brothers, a revenge movie about a family of gun-toting, black and white, adopted brothers (based loosely on the 1965 John Wayne western The Sons of Katie Elder), Benjamin plays Jeremiah Mercer, the least trigger-happy character. The movie was directed by Singleton. "Dre came out here, worked hard and ate the whole humble pie," says Singleton. "Now things are heating up for him. I'm lucky to have him in this movie...
...inability to win support for his Social Security plan suggest that Bush doesn't have the leverage he once did: he could not afford a nominee so toxic to Democrats that the move would unravel the truce struck by a bipartisan group of 14 Senators and possibly trigger a filibuster...
...rare cases, medicine used to treat Parkinson's disease may trigger compulsive gambling, say Mayo Clinic doctors, who reported the effect in 11 patients in the Archives of Neurology. One patient squandered $100,000 before he was taken off the meds and lost his taste for games of chance...