| Ethnicity A Risk Factor For Heart Disease
But when his chest pain lasted for an hour, he headed for the emergency room.
Good thing. Not only was he having a major heart attack, which doctors treated with clot-busting drugs, but he also had three badly blocked arteries that required bypass surgery and he was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.
So how does a young guy seemingly in good health suddenly become such a medical train wreck?
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Gary and Barbara Sorensen's home: An artistic vision
Both their homes have been remodeled to better display her works and those of world-renowned painters, printmakers and sculptors working in clay, metal and glass.
"I consider my home a background for art," says Barbara, who studied at the University of Wisconsin in the 1960s and later at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Colorado.
"The colors are monochromatic with subtle surface textures. The furniture has simple, clean shapes," she says. "I take the minimal approach so the art has space to breathe and speak."
She calls the bilevel living room and adjacent sunroom "my blond space." The carpeting, floor tiles and spare, contemporary furniture are shades of sand, clay and stone. Even the sunroom's wood-paneled ceiling appears sun-bleached.
Against this pale backdrop, Barbara's massive, textured sculptures stand in strong contrast -- as do prized pieces from the couple's collections, including a pair of vivid Kimono Vases by ceramic artist Betty Woodman and a huge, brilliant canvas by Helen Frankenthaler, founder of the Color Field painting movement.
John Edwards Squeezed in Historic Race
January 24, 2008 · Political history is filled with those who run for vice president and who, one election cycle later, decide they are worthy of being the presidential nominee of their party. In the last four decades alone, we saw it with Ed Muskie, Hubert Humphrey's running mate in 1968, who went into the 1972 campaign as the Democratic front-runner for the top spot. There was Sargent Shriver, a late addition to the Democratic ticket in '72, running for president in 1976. The list also includes both those who made it to the vice-presidency, such as Walter Mondale, George H.W. Bush, Dan Quayle and Al Gore, as well as those who didn't, like Bob Dole and Joe Lieberman. All wanted to make the move to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. To no one's surprise, John Edwards is on that list.
Increasing financial literacy
Vast numbers of us go to college and own homes and cars. Our kids tote the latest cellphones, and our living room television sets have been replaced by lavish home entertainment centers. But we don't know how to budget for our households or how to balance our checkbooks. Homeowners who misunderstood or ignored the inherent risks of adjustable-rate mortgages are losing houses to foreclosure in record numbers. (In California, 31,676 households foreclosed in the last quarter of 2007, more than twice as many as the previous record in 1996.) Shoppers who ignored the fine print on credit card agreements helped push consumer bankruptcies up 40%, to 801,840, in 2007. The average college student graduates with $2,200 in credit card debt and is more likely to drop out of school because of financial hardship than because of academic failure.
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