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...nearly a century, ever since U.S. brain surgeon Harvey Cushing and others noted that measuring blood flow was a good way of determining how much stress the heart was under. But exactly what physicians mean by "high" has shifted over the years. Now it appears that the danger point may be lower than previously thought...
...definition of borderline is not clear-cut. In general, scientists see blood pressure as a continuum: the higher the reading, the greater the risk of stroke and heart disease. But for practical purposes, doctors often set a cutoff point at 140/90, urging patients whose pressure is above that level to seek treatment. (The 140 is a measure of systolic pressure, the maximum force with which the heart expels blood; the 90 indicates diastolic pressure, the strength of blood flow between beats.) But in this study of nearly 1,000 patients, the researchers found that even people with a mean blood...
...Issel, 19, deputy manager of the retail outlet of East Berlin's Cityback Bakery. Formerly part of a huge government- owned combine, the bakery has become a private corporation but is near collapse because almost all its former customers are locked into exclusive deals with Western suppliers. At one point, production fell from 50,000 loaves of bread a day to fewer than 15,000. "But our bread is just as good, and it's cheaper, so we opened our own shop here in the factory," says newly minted free-marketeer Issel. Customers have been flocking in for bread that...
...Reagan style was made up of three elements, the first and most obvious located at the point where warmth intersects rhetoric. Reagan's rhetoric was crafted by flacks, and the warmth may not have warmed anyone within actual touching distance, apart from Nancy, but from a podium or in front of a lens, the combination was overpowering. Reagan, said Tip O'Neill in a moment of frustration, could win an election with the votes of a group of bankrupt farmers. O'Neill, no mean blarneyer himself, was paying homage to a master...
...there were several confounding factors, as Teicher is quick to admit. Four of the patients were on other medications as well as Prozac. Five of the patients had contemplated suicide or attempted it at some point in their past. That raises the question of whether the preoccupation with self-destruction resulted from Prozac or from the depressive disease itself. Teicher suspects the drug in part because none of the patients were actively suicidal at the time they began therapy with Prozac. "Moreover," he observes, "the nature of their suicidal thoughts was qualitatively different than it had been in the past...