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...message to take away is that various factors overlap to create asthma," says Dr. Leonard Bielroy, an allergy, asthma and immunology specialist in Springfield, N.J., who has studied some of the condition's intersecting risk factors. "And whether those factors are psychological or physical, the more they overlap, the greater the chance of developing asthma." (See how to prevent illness...
...States. It's familiar around the world through depictions in TV and movies, and since Sept. 11, 2001, it has been revered for the bravery and sacrifices of its officers. It's also a secretive organization fraught with corruption, misconduct and a dangerous lack of public accountability, argues reporter Leonard Levitt in his new book, NYPD Confidential. A former TIME reporter, Levitt wrote a New York Newsday column about the department for 11 years, once so angering police commissioner Ray Kelly that Kelly traveled to the newspaper's Long Island headquarters to complain in person to Levitt's editors. Levitt...
...friendship has become mostly a fond memory, now close to dormancy. Ben (Mark Duplass) has been busy making a life for himself in Seattle, acquiring a steady job, a house and a wife - doe-eyed Anna (Alycia Delmore), who is warm and kind and really gets him. Andrew (Joshua Leonard) is one of those carefree, just-back-from-Machu Picchu types, reliable mostly for being unreliable. Both men are at that stage of life where the costumes they've been trying on are about to become uniforms if they don't swap them for something else soon...
...Andrew to want him to feel cast aside. Both are figuring out how hard it is, particularly for men, to make new friends in midlife. Each has other legitimate fears: Ben of feeling limited, even as he adores Anna, and Andrew of being a poseur (which he is, but Leonard makes us care for him). Anna has fears too. The truth is, the distance between these men is likely to grow, and she doesn't want to get the blame for that...
...each other's high-mindedness but also in destroying another woman's home, hobbling her children emotionally and setting her up for humiliation of a titanic proportion. The squalor and pain that resulted from the Sanford and Ensign midlife crises make manifest a bleak truth that the late writer Leonard Michaels once observed in his journal: "Adultery is not about sex or romance. Ultimately, it is about how little we mean to one another." (See the top 10 regrettable e-mails...