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What surprised the doctors who examined these patients was that none of them had actually suffered a heart attack. Indeed, few had any signs of heart disease at all. Yet at least five of the 19--and perhaps more--would have died without treatment, according to Dr. Ilan Wittstein, the cardiologist who led the study...
What was going on? To get to the bottom of it, Wittstein and his colleagues measured the levels of catecholamines--the family of stress hormones that includes adrenalin--that their patients were producing. In each case they found high levels of stress hormones--up to 34 times as great as normal levels and two to three times as great as those typically seen during severe heart attacks...
...still unclear whether the hormones caused the cardiac problems or were caused by them. Nor can doctors explain why women's hearts seem more vulnerable than men's. "Men typically produce higher levels of catecholamines in response to a stressful event than women do," Wittstein says. "So if you had to guess, you'd guess that men would have this problem more than women...
...solution that designer Ed Wittstein settled on was to construct a huge fixed set made up of portions of the required locales. In the rear we see tall diagonal cutouts representing the facades of London houses. To the left we have Horner's lodging, assumed to be on the second story since it is reached by a stairwell opening up through the stage floor. It is a lived-in space, decked out with a fireplace on whose mantle sit an hourglass, an astrolabe and a drinking-mug. There are a chandelier, a terrestrial globe on a stand, a mirror, antlers...
Even before any players appear on the Festival stage, the audience is confronted by balance in the form of Ed Wittstein's setting. In upstage center stands an imposing depressed segmental arch suggestive of some oversize fireplace. Its Ionic flanking columns hold up a gabled brick wall, with a set of cyma recta consoles supporting a three-arch window that sheds lambent light through its variegated diamond panes. Some distance to the right and left of this centerpiece are placed smaller diagonal arched doorways. When the garden scenes arrive, a section of brick wall and a bench roll in symmetrically...