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...held a cocktail hour where the rule was that nothing could be said of politics or war; instead the conversation was deliberately turned to gossip, funny stories or reminiscences. Only Eleanor was allowed to bring up serious subjects, to talk of civil rights or slum clearance. Roosevelt spent untold hours sorting his stamp collection, playing poker with his Cabinet members, watching mystery movies. Only when Eleanor chose the movies did he agree to sit through serious pictures--The Grapes of Wrath or a documentary on civil rights...
...gave his countrymen exactly what he promised them--blood, toil, tears, sweat--and one thing more: untold courage...
...electricity-supply lines at the moment '99 rolls over into '00. A flurry of bug- fixing and Y2K-readiness reports over the past year seems to have lulled most of us into a what-me-worry? coma, but it hasn't made the problem go away. There are untold millions of embedded chips and creaky old computer systems that will continue to keep track of the date in terms of two-digit years, and no one can predict with certainty how many of our silicon friends will freak out when both digits suddenly come up empty...
...enamored with Ornish's approach--and devours studies of medical breakthroughs that show, among other things, that rabbits that are regularly stroked have less plaque in their arteries--he puts them in the context of policy. He argues, for example, that the government and private insurers could save untold billions on unnecessary heart surgery. And he doesn't stop there. "General Motors ought to be saying to every [employee] that they cover, 'If you decide you need a heart transplant, you ought to be taking vitamin E, you ought to be taking selenium,'" he said. "That ought to be part...
...warned their patients about the dangers of high blood pressure, a generally symptomless condition that increases the risk of heart disease, kidney failure and stroke. By aggressively treating folks whose readings exceed the normal limit of 140/90 mm Hg at rest, physicians have prevented millions of premature deaths and untold suffering. But it looks as if we've stopped getting the message. A national health survey released two years ago showed that blood-pressure rates are no longer falling; at the same time, the incidence of stroke has started to rise...