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Barack Obama released his tax records when he ran for president in 2008. So did Richard Nixon in 1968. In fact, so did George Romney in that same campaign.But, in 2012, Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts and ... |
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| Daily Aspirin Is Not for Everyone, Study Suggests |
| NEARLY a third of middle-aged Americans regularly take a baby aspirin in the hope of preventing a heart attack or a stroke or lowering their cancer risk. But new research shows that aspirin is not for everyone...
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| | Grief is a real heartbreaker, finds study | | THERE really is such a thing as heartb r e a k i n g grief, suggests new research that finds losing a loved one can increase the risk of heart attack.
Within a day of a significant other's death, heart attack risk was 21 times higher than normal, said researchers who looked at data on nearly 2,000 heart attack patients. And within the first week after death, the heart attack risk for the bereaved was still six times greater than usual.
"Extreme grief can trigger heart attacks," said lead researcher Dr Murray Mittleman, director of the Cardiovascular Epidemiology Research Unit at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre and Harvard Medical School in Boston.
"For at least a month the risk remains elevated and likely stays up even longer," he added.
The stress and anxiety of losing someone close can trigger heartd a m a g i n g biological processes, Mittleman explained.
"All of this can cause a physiologic response with an increase in heart rate and blood pressure, and also can cause changes that makes blood a little bit more sticky," he said. "This can increase the risk of having a heart attack.
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| | See a blue moon, wreath nebula and more | | IBERIAN NIGHT Dimmed by thin clouds, night-time lights reveal the shape of the Iberian Peninsula in Europe in a recently released picture taken by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station.
The 227,800-square-mile (590,000-square-kilometre) Iberian Peninsula includes the Principality of Andorra, the Kingdom of Spain, and the Portuguese Republic. The narrow Strait of Gibraltar separates the peninsula from northern Africa, seen on the right in this frame.
This photograph from space also shows airglow, a faint green arc seen along the horizon that's caused by chemical reactions among the gas molecules of Earth's upper atmosphere.
HAZY MOON A new picture of Saturn's moon Titan shows a highaltitude layer of blue haze tracing the edge of the orange globe. NASA's Cassini spacecraft snapped this natural-colour shot of the moon's south polar region from a distance of about 83,000 miles (134,000 kilometres).
Scientists think the higher layer appears blue because its haze particles are smaller than the particles in the moon's lower atmosphere.
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| | Golden Globes ooze old-style Hollywood glam | | TIMELESS elegance, fitted bodices and mermaid trains ruled the Golden Globes' red carpet on Sunday, as A-list celebrities channeled oldstyle Hollywood glamour.
Angelina Jolie looked like Grace Kelly in her whitesatin Atelier Versace gown with a twist of Marlene Dietrich thanks to a red fold over collar, matching red lips and red clutch. Modern F a m i l y actress Sofia V e r g a r a seemed Jayne Mansfield-esque in her strapless teal Vera Wang gown, ruffled train and Harry Winston jewels.
Charlize Theron could have passed for Lana Turner back in her heyday in Dior Couture with a plunging neckline and thighhigh slit dress, while Evan Rachel Wood was a modern-day Joan Crawford in her sparkling green Gucci Premiere gown, also with a plunging neckline.
"It's old Hollywood glamour.
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