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...Finally, it never hurts to build up your muscles a bit. "We're overweight and out of shape," says Dr. Robert Bucholz, president of the surgeons' group and chairman of orthopedic surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. "Anything you can do to increase your conditioning will decrease the risk of injury." Good advice, even if you aren't planning to get away this winter...
...cocaine causes the amygdala to change in shape, it means that we have a mandate to get it off the street,” said Breiter. “If this is purely genetic, then we should develop better medical diagnosis and prevention skills—we can determine who is at risk...
...around the heart to relieve the stress created when the organ becomes enlarged, usually from trying to compensate for damage caused by heart attacks, valve disorders or high blood pressure. In a study of 300 patients, the CorCap reportedly helped enlarged hearts return to a more normal size and shape. The cardiac support hose is still experimental, and implanting it involves major surgery, but developers will seek FDA approval early next year. Meanwhile, makers of the CorCap hope they can devise a way to put it in place less invasively. --By David Bjerklie
Jazz pianist Bill Charlap approaches a song the way a lover approaches his beloved. He wants to know its origins, its shape, its moods. He wants to view it from every angle--melody, harmony, lyrics, verse. He even wants to hear about its romantic history--what other improvisers have done with it. When he sits down to play, the result is an embrace, an act of possession. The tune rises, falls, disappears and resurfaces in new forms as Charlap ranges over the keyboard with nimble, crisply swinging lines, subtly layered textures, dense chords and spiky interjections. But no matter...
...more than 100,000-person Justice Department. Gonzales, 49, who for a decade has been at Bush's side in a variety of top jobs, would be the first Hispanic American to take the helm at Justice. He was chosen to change the tone, if not necessarily the shape, of legal policy in the second half of the Bush presidency. "This is the fifth time I have asked Judge Gonzales to serve his fellow citizens," Bush said. "He is a calm and steady voice in times of crisis...