![]() ![]() We see patients who come in their twenties even having had heart attacks who have no other obvious cardiac risk factors," Jauhar said. Sandeep Jauhar wrote a book called Heart: A History. "South Asians tend to get afflicted with heart disease at a younger age than Caucasians do. Why South Asians are more at risk for heart disease remains a mystery, said Sandeep Jauhar, a New York-based cardiologist who authored a book on the topic, "Heart: A History." Research specific to South Asians is still relatively new, Jauhar said, as they are, like many minority groups, underrepresented in medical trials. South Asians make up a quarter of the world's population, but a whopping 60% of all heart disease patients, and South Asian Americans tend to develop high blood pressure, abnormal cholesterol, and triglycerides, a type of fat in the blood that increases the risk for heart attacks, at lower body weights compared to other ethnicities. His first book, Intern: A Doctors Initiation, was optioned by NBC for a dramatic television series. ![]() He is the New York Times bestselling author of two medical memoirs and a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. ![]() South Asians, including people of Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Nepali, and Sri Lankan descent, are all at a higher risk for heart disease - and researchers don't know why. The author of new hit book Heart: A History says sometimes its best let the story tell itself and to get out of the way. Sandeep Jauhar is director of the Heart Failure Program at Long Island Jewish Medical Center. ![]() Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. ![]()
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![]() ![]() It is not something separate from life, but what makes it worth living-that is, a certain quality, depth, abundance and intensity of life. ![]() He argues instead that the meaning of life is not a solution to a problem, but a matter of living in a certain way. ![]() Eagleton probes this view of meaning as a kind of private enterprise, and concludes that it fails to holds up. If our lives have meaning, it is something with which we manage to invest them, not something with which they come ready made. ![]() On the other hand, Eagleton notes, many educated people believe that life is an evolutionary accident that has no intrinsic meaning. But instead of tackling it head-on, many of us cope with the feelings of meaninglessness in our lives by filling them with everything from football to sex, Kabbala, Scientology, "New Age softheadedness," or fundamentalism. He suggests, however, that it is only in modern times that the question has become problematic. Eagleton first examines how centuries of thinkers and writers-from Marx and Schopenhauer to Shakespeare, Sartre, and Beckett-have responded to the ultimate question of meaning. But in this spirited Very Short Introduction, famed critic Terry Eagleton takes a serious if often amusing look at the question and offers his own surprising answer. The phrase "the meaning of life" for many seems a quaint notion fit for satirical mauling by Monty Python or Douglas Adams. ![]() ![]() ![]() Going back a bit further we saw photos of RFK Jr. Last week Kennedy said he thought it was unfair for biological men to play sports with biological women, another verboten position among most Democrats. ![]() Most obvious is his position against COVID vaccines which sets him directly at odds with the party of vax and boost. It’s worth taking a quick look at a few examples. In important ways Kennedy seems to be wildly out of step with Democrat Party orthodoxy. a candidate who can move the party of Jefferson and Jackson away from progressive ideology and back to common sense. While this could be a simple case of “anyone but Joe,” it’s also possible that some Democrat voters see in RFK Jr. ![]() But not long after those giggles turned to gasps as a shocking poll put the scion of America’s most famous political family at nearly 20%, with a struggling Joe Biden mired at 62% of his party’s own voters. announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination earlier this year it was mostly met with giggles. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her dexterous, self-ironizing distance (the autobiographical elements are obvious), the detached gestures with which the narrator interrupts herself, the muted fury that erupts in overlong or half-sentences, and a certain moral seriousness and ethical anguish also impregnate this gem of a novel. "Szabó's style (the text is brilliantly translated), laced with gentle humor, is as mesmerizing as are her characters. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As mysteriously as it all started, the screaming went away and the next morning I married Oliver Jones - the Oliver Jones - and we just about lived happily ever after. To this day, I don't know why that happened to me. There was no foreseeable problem that I could articulate. I had a job waiting for me when I returned from my honeymoon. I was marrying the man of my dreams in a prototypical white clapboard New England church, and the reception - a lavish one with white-gloved waiters and Beluga caviar - was going to be held in my parents' backyard. I was barely nineteen, a straight-A student fresh out of Wellesley College and in 1976 that was still an accomplishment. ![]() I watched the lights come on in different houses - blue and yellow, blinking like Christmas - and wondered what was happening to me. ![]() We lived in a button-down suburb of Boston, and we were waking up the neighbors one by one. Even with my mouth closed, I continued - the high, shrill note of a nocturnal animal. My parents came into the room and put their arms around me they patted my head and smoothed my hair, fine, and I still couldn't stop screaming. The night before I got married I woke up, screaming, from my sleep. ![]() ![]() ![]() The name derives from a French medieval and renaissance masque group. ![]() Hay was expelled from the CP (at his own insistence) as a "security risk" to the party because of his involvement in the Society. A member of the CPUSA, Hay structured the small group like a Communist Party cell. and Homosexual Information Center etc., founded in 1950 in Los Angeles by Harry Hay and Rudy Gernreich. ![]() The Mattachine Society, forerunner of Daughters of Bilitis, One, Inc. "Her Son, Her Son" by James Barr Fugaté, "Actor Replies to Criticism" by Kirk Douglas in which he replies to a critic who questioned the virility of his Van Gogh character and states that he was attempting to imply the artist's homosexuality by toning down his (the actor's) overt masculinity in other roles. Mostly reprints from various sources including Der Kreis. In January 1956 the bimonthly began an experiment with an issue with fewer pages and mostly reprints in between regular issues. 28p., including covers, 5.5x8.25 inches, Balfour centerfold drawing, very good digest size magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. ![]() ![]() He is intrigued by Vivian the moment he meets her and finds himself making excuses just to spend time with her. ![]() ![]() Malcolm Hudson has worked for the Queen for years and has never given a personal, private tour-until now. She’s excited to spend the holidays taking in the magnificent British sights, but what she doesn’t expect is to become instantly attracted to a certain private secretary, his charming accent, and unyielding formality. Vivian Forest has been out of the country a grand total of one time, so when she gets the chance to tag along on her daughter Maddie’s work trip to England to style a royal family member, she can’t refuse. Perhaps one of her best books yet, Jasmine Guillory’s Royal Holiday left me with a smile on my face and joy in my heart! Guillory continues to push contemporary romance into showcasing diversity in the genre, while still maintaining the steamy, fun, sassy, and heart-warming moments that make you forget you are also learning a valuable lesson. ![]() ![]() ![]() I honestly can’t sing enough praises for this book. There’s something wonderful about a character living in poverty totally sticking it to the man by playing the man’s game but playing it their own way. Dystopian future, televised game shows that pretty much guarantee death, and an Orwell-esque government. Right from the get go, stuff is happening, and in typical Bachman style, it’s pretty fucked up. I read this book in only four sessions, it’s so intense and fast paced. ![]() ![]() It definitely feels like the Hunger Games could have been an homage to the Running Man. I remember thinking of the Running Man when I read the Hunger Games for the first time, and upon this reread I wondered if Suzanne Collins was inspired by this book when she came up with the idea. This is another of the Bachman books, and one that I was crazy excited to reread. ![]() ![]() But as their endless game of one-upmanship becomes Kate's favorite part of the day, she starts to wonder if her feelings for Ben are closer to attraction than animosity.and maybe their sparring is flirting. He thinks she's too quick to judge (and irresistibly distracting). She thinks he's arrogant (and doesn't deserve those gorgeous green eyes). ![]() Their ensuing power struggle gives new meaning to the term office politics: prank mail, spying, bets gone awry-nothing's off limits in their battle of wills. After Kate and Ben lock horns in a meet-not-so-cute, they vow to take each other down-by any means necessary. There's just one thing standing between liberal Senate staffer Kate Adams and passage of the landmark legislation she's been fighting for all year: Ben Mackenzie, intimidating gatekeeper for one of DC's most powerful conservative senators. What happens when the person you find most impossible becomes impossible to resist? The Hating Game meets The West Wing in this hilarious across-the-aisle romantic comedy debut about America's least likely couple. ![]() ![]() ![]() The season was internationally syndicated, airing in the United Kingdom on ITV, in Canada on Citytv and SPACE, and in Australia on Network Ten. The show gained mostly positive reviews, with the cast and crew garnering many award nominations and praise being given towards the brotherly chemistry between the two leads, however the formulaic structure of the episodes was criticized. It averaged only about 3.14 million American viewers, and was in danger of not being renewed. ![]() The previous season was broadcast on The WB. The season aired on Thursdays at 9:00 pm ET in the United States, and was the first season to air on The CW television network, a joint venture of The WB and UPN. ![]() During their travels, they use their father's journal to help them carry on the family business-saving people and hunting supernatural creatures. They attempt to discover the demon's plan for Sam and other psychic children-young adults who were visited by Azazel as infants and given abilities, and whose mothers often then died in a fire. The season focuses on protagonists Sam ( Jared Padalecki) and Dean Winchester ( Jensen Ackles) as they track down Azazel, the demon responsible for the deaths of their mother Mary and father John. The second season of Supernatural, an American dark fantasy television series created by Eric Kripke, premiered on September 28, 2006, and concluded on May 17, 2007, airing 22 episodes. ![]() |