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...understand the long-term thinking and the staying power of SIA, it's worth thinking back to those wines that were chosen late last year, including a 1999 Chateau Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande, a Bordeaux that retails for upwards of $130, and a 1998 Stag's Leap Wine Cellars Fay Vineyard Cabernet, an $85 Californian. Neither of them will be served on SIA's new U.S. flights this year. Instead, they will be cellared until 2005 or 2006, when they will have developed the right character for drinking. --With reporting by Douglas Wong/Singapore
...reason high blood pressure is so diabolical, Ting says, is that it seems so simple to understand. "Every doctor takes blood pressure," says Wong, but very few doctors bother to monitor it on a 24-hour basis to detect dips during sleep or spikes in the first hours after waking. That's important, Ting explains, because "nondippers have three to five times the risk of stroke" and because strokes often occur within three hours of waking, which Ting traces to a "morning surge" in blood pressure...
...order to understand who Samuel M. Zornow ’08 really is, you have to understand what Samuel M. Zornow ’08 really does...
...song or helping to perfect that artist’s sound. On the business side, record companies have helped artists expose their music to the widest possible audience. It is well documented that record companies risk their capital knowing that only a few artists ever find that audience.Record companies understand that the music industry is changing. They are evolving in an attempt to take advantage of the opportunities that new technologies offer for artists and fans. Record companies are actively partnering with new digital music services and experimenting with new products and business deals with artists to give music fans...
...Witness the taboo that is single-payer health care, something which no Democratic candidate short of Dennis Kucinich is publicly supporting. Self-described progressives can’t understand those who brush off their inexorable logic. European countries, they point out, spend a fraction of what we do on health care but have healthier populations. Thus, a single-payer system is obviously the solution...