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Another precaution is to drink adequate amounts of nonalcoholic fluids before and during the flight. Dehydration can affect certain factors in the blood, making it thicker and more likely to clot. Travelers should be alert for leg pain, swelling and feelings of heaviness. When in doubt, it never hurts to get up and stretch. But only after the captain has turned off the FASTEN SEAT BELTS SIGN...
Syrians got their equipment and tactics from the Soviet Union. The U.S. Army worked closely with Israel. Together, we saw the need for more powerful tank guns; longer-range, all-weather optics; thicker armor; and better coordination among units. Defensive tactics were refined, complementing Israel's already formidable offensive capabilities. For Israel, it had been the fourth war in 25 years. The Israelis were unchallengeable on the ground and in the air--at least in conventional terms...
UNWANTED LEGACY Doctors who studied the offspring of adults who had a heart attack before age 60 report a perplexing finding: the kids, average age 19, generally had normal cholesterol and blood-pressure readings but arteries that were 11% thicker than normal. Advice to the youngsters: be doubly sure to keep those heart-attack risk factors--smoking, sedentary lifestyle and weight gain--in check...
...details, there's a little background you need to know about your skin. (We promise to keep the chemistry to a minimum.) Considered by scientists to be an organ, the skin weighs 9 lbs. on average and has three main layers: the epidermis, the dermis and the hypodermis. No thicker than a page in this magazine, the outermost layer, the epidermis, is filled with layers of specialized skin cells known as keratinocytes. When these cells, which start out plump with water in the deepest layer of the epidermis, migrate to the skin's surface, they lose moisture and are eventually...
...much as he just wanted to be President, to sit behind that big desk and make the hard calls. George Bush never promised to be an activist in the Oval Office; he just promised to keep the ship in the channel. "W," whose public agenda is not much thicker than his father's, is essentially promising the same thing, but his private agenda is more pressing. Bush's father was worried at times that "W" wouldn't amount to much, but at some point everything fell into place. Would it really be so surprising if the mission that finally elevated...