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Both Benecol and Take Control make it harder for the intestines to absorb cholesterol. (About half of the cholesterol in the gut comes from your diet; the other half gets produced by your body.) There is evidence that the active ingredients can pull some vitamin A precursors out of circulation--although researchers did not consider the reduction significant...
...with the ones you have, seniors especially. Our lives are never going to turn out quite the way we planned for them to. We will need our friends this reading period, this summer, next year, the next fifty years. We will need them to listen to our problems, to absorb the tears that we sob, to celebrate our triumphs with us. We will need to do the same for them, for friends are people who both need us and are needed by us. We will need to remind them how incredibly strong they are and how much we love...
...SHINE Vitamin D may be even more important than we knew for keeping women's bones strong. A new study shows that 50% of females with hip fractures are D-deficient. The vitamin not only helps the body absorb calcium, but it's now thought to play a critical role in bone repair. What to do: load up on fortified milk and cereal--and get some...
...Bank of America, once fired an executive because the guy smoked a pipe at work. "I figured anybody who had enough time to mess with pipes had too slow a metabolism for me," he explains. O.K., he's not exactly a softy. But McColl's ability to acquire and absorb one large bank after another can teach us a thing or two about teamwork: "We are people who believe in disagreeing sharply...But when we leave the room...we are in lockstep... Support the team...
After a year of intense negotiations, Linda, Neil and Jeremy could breathe easy. The Radcliffe Question had finally been answered. Harvard will absorb the 120-year-old women's college (endowment, real estate and all), and turn it into an institute for advanced study...