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...American women what disease they're most scared of, and the vast majority will answer without hesitation: breast cancer. They may even cite the ominous statistic that 1 in 8 women will develop breast cancer at some point in her life. But what most women don't realize is that they actually have far more to fear from heart disease, which will strike 1 out of every 3. More than 500,000 women die in the U.S. each year of cardiovascular disease, making it, not breast cancer (40,000 deaths annually), their No. 1 killer...
...doctors were starting from scratch. Cholesterol-lowering drugs like statins and antihypertensive medications like beta-blockers clearly help both men and women, as do a healthy diet and plenty of exercise. "The vast majority of heart attacks in women could be prevented with a combination of lifestyle modifications and medication," says Dr. JoAnn Manson at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. "Just making use of existing information could nearly eradicate the disease...
...Seymour, Robert Capa and George Rodger. But for all Cartier-Bresson's efforts to draw the spotlight off his own photographs, the retrospective will not let him get away with it. His powerful black-and-white, natural-light photographs - formally rigorous, timeless and often enigmatic - adorn the BNF's vast exhibit space. Cartier-Bresson once wrote that photographers need "a velvet hand and a hawk's eye." Here is the master class...
Without access to inventory lists, it has been difficult to calculate the damage to the vast treasury of the Iraqi National Museum, which contained the discoveries of a century of intensive archeology in the lands of ancient Mesopotamia. But news reports suggest that looters nearly completely ransacked the museum, taking advantage of the chaos attending the American occupation of Baghdad earlier this month...
...National Museum housed between 150,000 and 200,000 objects, a vast collection that scholars say will be impossible to reassemble if it becomes dispersed among private collections...