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  • The narcocorrido does not begin with champagne. It begins with dust. A guitar is plucked like a heel on hard earth. An accordion breathes like a man who has walked too far. The song smells of diesel, gun oil, and the kitchen where a mother is still boiling beans for a son who will not…

  • In the early 1970s, Finland recorded the highest coronary heart disease mortality in the world. The excess was concentrated in working-age men, particularly in the eastern province of North Karelia, where mortality among men in their forties reached levels that would now be associated with men two decades older. The North Karelia Project, launched in…