Word: stroke
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...Vitamin E may not help the heart after all. In a double-blind trial of nearly 10,000 high-risk patients--who had already had a heart attack or stroke--400 IUs of vitamin E daily didn't work any better than a sugar pill in preventing a subsequent episode of heart trouble. Best advice: for now, count on aspirin and the other meds your doctor prescribes...
Sources: Good News--New England Journal of Medicine (1/6/00); The Lancet (12/11/99). Bad News--Environmental Science & Technology (2/1/00); Stroke (1/7/00...
...then there are Balaam's eyes. Rembrandt's eyes. Lastman has followed the van Mander prescription. The prophet is amazed to hear his donkey speak. Follow the stage direction. Make his eyes pop out with astonishment. Give the customers dilated pupils, white sclera, and lots of it. With a stroke of perverse genius (excuse the term), Rembrandt has done the opposite, painting Balaam's eyes as dark crevices. For this is, after all, the moment _before_ God opens those eyes to the angel and the light of truth...