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...Dame, where her father and siblings have gone, but she courts suspension with nasty pranks: promiscuously e-mailing a topless photo of another girl and making catty calls to her; wreathing a rival's car in toilet paper, then spray-painting a penis and the word fag on his window. She's quite the cutup...
...these changes, however, probably are not so harmful in healthy people. But for a person with a plaque in the coronary vessel, if these changes occur at the same time and peak at the same time, the final result is a higher risk of heart attack during that specific window of morning hours...
...happen for various reasons: not all tests read the same SNPs to calculate the same risk, and not all risks are calculated using the same metric (some results compute the risk of cancer over a lifetime, for example, while others may assess the risk within a 10-year window). "We want to come together as scientists and say, Here's how we should present the information to the consumer," says Avey, who hopes the proposed voluntary industry guidelines will promote consistency among results offered by all companies that read SNPs. "And that way, when they get results back from...
...ballistic missiles.'' Nor would defenders have much time to identify and hit a missile during this initial stage. Today the Soviet ICBM boost phase lasts up to five minutes. ''Fast-burn booster'' technology now in development may cut that time to as little as 50 seconds--a ''short fighting window.'' Missiles that escape the boost phase and enter midcourse flight present an overwhelming problem. By that time they have released their re-entry vehicles (warheads aimed at U.S. targets), as well as thousands of decoys and reflective metal scraps known as chaff, forming a threat cloud...
...Singerman, bankruptcy counsel for Puig's companies, is even busier. His firm represents the Florida home builders Tousa Inc. and Levitt and Sons, which happen to be the nation's two largest bankrupt home builders, along with droves of failing contractors, landscapers and architects. "I got two calls from window distributors this week," Singerman told me. "A tile guy called this morning...