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Randomization to the hypertension component began in February, 1994, and continued through January, 1998, with 42,418 participants recruited at 623 clinical centers in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.
Like a handful of emeralds scattered across blue velvet, the verdant islands of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas stretch across 100,000 sq miles (259,000 sq km) of the Atlantic Ocean.
In 1852 the Canary Islands were declared a duty-free zone in order to stimulate the development of the archipelago and its ports as an Atlantic staging base.
Against the odds, much of the islands’ traditional life and values has been preserved, and while agriculture is no longer the dominant income source, plenty of people still have little connection to tourism.
After the spectacular panorama viewed from Gibb’s Hill Lighthouse (on one of Bermuda’s highest points), the land narrows to a string of small islands held together by a series of small bridges leading eventually to the sites of Britain’s former glory.