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Wednesday, December 18, 2002
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High-speed connections surge. Americans love their high-speed Internet connections, with subscriber numbers jumping by about 70 percent in the last year, according to government figures. [CNET News.com]
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11:31:30 AM 
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I'm continuing to enjoy the musings of Real Live Preacher. Here's a choice passage:
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I spent a lot of time in Mexico as a young boy. The preacher knows the mingled smells of outhouses, kerosene, and poverty. It's something you never forget. One year during a bitter cold spell my father and his friends showed up at the border with a load of blankets and coats. The forecast was for temperatures well below freezing that night, and they knew a lot of families were going to be cold. The Mexican government forbade them from entering. Some bureaucratic bullshit, I guess. My dad said his kinder, gentler equivalent of "fuck it" and became a smuggler on the spot. He and the others made numerous trips across the border that day in different cars with blankets, food, and jackets crammed under the seats and hidden in the trunks. My dad felt that one's calling to serve God was higher than one's calling to obey the law. For Christ's sake, he and his friends couldn’t let children freeze. "For Christ's sake" packs a punch when you mean it literally. | [Scott Rosenberg's Links & Comment]
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11:05:01 AM
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The trial involved 40,000 patients, including about 900 in Canada. Some got the traditional treatment, a diuretic pill also known as a water pill that costs a few cents a day. Others took more expensive new drugs known as calcium channel blockers and ACE inhibitors that cost $1 to $2 a day.
The patients were followed for an average of almost five years, and the researchers found that the ones on the cheaper diuretics did better.
"They should be the drug of choice," Dr. Leenen said, and urged physicians to try patients on diuretics first before prescribing other drugs. [more...]
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