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...however, the attack failed. After an initial standoff, U.S. forces were able to call in reinforcements and fight their way near the station to engage the main body of the attackers. Faced with overwhelming force, the insurgents melted away into the neighborhood, ready to fight another day. One American was killed, and several others were injured. Perhaps 30 of the insurgents were killed; the exact number can't be determined because they carried off many of their dead...
...commonest of those pressure-related disasters is heart attack. The higher pressure climbs, the harder the heart has to pump to push the blood. Like any other muscle called on to do more work, the heart responds by enlarging, chiefly in the left ventricle, which is its main pumping chamber. Increased muscle mass is fine in the biceps, but it's bad in the heart, which must be lean and flexible to work as it should. Worse, if a person with hypertension has high cholesterol, the deteriorating condition of vessel walls creates rough spots that serve as toeholds for circulating...
It was both a symbol and a symptom of the revolution that rippled across Ukraine last week. On Thursday, as the presenter of state-controlled UT1's main morning news program was updating viewers on the Central Electoral Commission's decision to declare Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych the winner of the country's Nov. 21 presidential vote, Natalya Dmitruk, the woman who translates broadcasts into sign language, decided to send a very different message. "When the presenter started to read the news," Dmitruk tells TIME, "I said, 'I address all deaf viewers. Yushchenko is our President. Do not believe...
Like politicians everywhere, Ukraine's 54-year-old Prime Minister likes to invoke his humble origins, telling the media that "my main dream in life was to break out of poverty." What he often fails to mention in his Horatio Alger-style tale is that as a teenager he spent almost four years in jail for robbery and assault, though the charges were later reversed. Genial but wooden tongued and more fluent in Russian than in Ukrainian, Yanukovych is reminiscent of a Soviet-era party boss, an image aided by his 6-ft.- 6-in., 240-lb. frame. That style...
Jeunet draws a comparison between his own personality and the personality of Mathilde, the main character in Engagement, which is being released in Boston today. “She is very strong...she has a drive, a willpower,” says Jeunet. “I recognize...