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...role in heart trouble than previously thought. Besides raising cholesterol levels slowly over time, fat-rich meals can send the body's blood- clotting system into overdrive and make blood dangerously sludgy within a matter of hours, thus elevating the risk of a heart attack. The fatty foods apparently trigger production of factor VII, a blood-clotting substance, which in turn sets off a massive chemical reaction. The good news is that switching to a low-fat diet promptly eliminates the increased risk of an artery-plugging clot...
...they had no control. They felt sorry for me. They told me to get a gun." She still doesn't remember firing it. She says she remembers her husband's face, the glassy eyes, a knife in his hands. "To this day, I don't remember pulling the trigger...
...surprising, since many judges insist that evidence of past abuse, even if it went on for years, is not relevant in court unless it occurred around the time of the killing. It is not the dead husband who is on trial, they note, but the wife who pulled the trigger. "Frankly, I feel changing the law would be authorizing preventive murder," argued Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lillian Stevens in the Los Angeles Times. "The only thing that really matters is, Was there an immediate danger? There can't be an old grievance." And even if a woman is allowed...
...Geneva Conventions. The expulsions also threatened the Middle East peace talks. In fact, warned the P.L.O., the Palestinian delegation will quit negotiations if the deportations are not reversed. Israelis and Palestinians in the territories are bracing for more trouble. Hamas has sworn to avenge the deportations, a likely trigger for another heavy Israeli reaction...
...uncle, a retired Army general (Michael Gambon) who wants to convert the plant to military-weapons production. Both are predictable types. Their employees are so sweetly innocent one longs for Hoffa's Teamsters to come in and give them mean lessons. But everyone's main function is to trigger special effects and lend scale to production designer Ferdinando Scarfiotti's overweening sets, which sometimes quote wittily from the modernist tradition (Dada, etc.) but also overuse the pachyderm motif at the heavy heart of this disastrously miscalculated movie...