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Truth is, the classic heart attack made famous onstage and onscreen, where you clutch your chest and fall to the ground, doesn't tell the whole story. "Half the time women don't do that," says Cedars-Sinai's Bairey Merz. "But 40% of the time, men don't have a typical heart attack either." Men, however, have been conditioned for decades to suspect that they might be suffering a heart attack even when they feel perfectly healthy. So while women are more likely to experience the prelude to an attack as shortness of breath, extreme fatigue or a feeling...
...virtual maze to capture a series of imaginary flags. To play, stand in any field or parking lot (you need at least 360 sq. ft. to maneuver) and look down at the screen to see where the nearest flag is located. Then walk or run toward it. An onscreen arrow updates your location and tells you when you've reached the flag. You can play alone or with friends, but make sure you look up every now and then, so you don't run into a tree--as I did--while hunting for flags...
...there are alternatives to walking leafy pathways that can bring the college to you. Both virtual tours on the Web and videos provide overviews of a campus, and more families are inquiring about them. But are these onscreen options an adequate way to assess an academic environment...
...greatest value rests in its side-by-side comparison of Moore, the greatest actress of her generation, and Streep, the most acclaimed actress of hers; when judged head-to-head, Moore ends up easily topping Streep, if for no other reason than that Streep persists in being an actress onscreen while Moore is content to be a person. Winner of this year’s Academy Award for Best Actress. The Hours screens...
What about American media treatment of Iraqi POWs? A Pentagon spokesman said last week that all journalists embedded with the troops had agreed not to show the faces of Iraqi POWs, which would open the prisoners to "public curiosity." But by now hundreds of Iraqi POWs have been shown onscreen and in print (including in TIME). In one worrisome story, aired March 22 on NBC Nightly News, a camera operator shone his lights in the faces of kneeling, bound Iraqi captives. "As I reach over here," said correspondent Kerry Sanders, leaning in to pick up a POW's food packet...