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...particularly gratified by a new study of Asian-American women done by the National Cancer Institute (NCI). It looked at women who ate a lot of soy-based foods as children, adolescents and adults. The strongest and most consistent association was among women who ate the most soy-based foods from ages 5 to 11. They reduced their risk of developing hormone-fueled breast cancer 58%, compared with women who ate the least. The reduction for women who ate a lot of soy as adolescents and adults was 25%. Regular, moderate consumption of whole-soy foods (such as soy nuts...
...event was to skip over the time-consuming process of disrobing and start the night in bedroom apparel, the better to expedite a roll in the hay as soon as the opportunity presented itself. All’s fair in love and war. Some students in the Asian-American community disagreed, heading into to battle against the Fox and, unexpectedly, themselves. The Asian-American Women’s Association (AAWA) was the first to take up the fight. “It’s in poor taste to make a joke or have a party about a bloody historical...
...event was to skip over the time-consuming process of disrobing and start the night in bedroom apparel, the better to expedite a roll in the hay as soon as the opportunity presented itself. All’s fair in love and war. Some students in the Asian-American community disagreed, heading into to battle against the Fox and, unexpectedly, themselves. The Asian-American Women’s Association (AAWA) was the first to take up the fight. “It’s in poor taste to make a joke or have a party about a bloody historical...
...Asians, meaning those with Chinese, North and South Korean, Japanese, or Taiwanese ancestry, make up a majority of the Asians at Harvard. Often, Southeast Asians—the region variably composed of India, Vietnam, Thailand, and several other countries—are lumped in with East Asians on ethnic surveys. In the smaller-scale world of college admissions, the Common Application, used by over 300 colleges, splits applicants of Asian heritage not into categories of East Asian and Southeast Asian descent but into “Asians” and “Asian-Americans”. Southeast Asian-Americans...
White, non-Hispanic students, who comprised two-thirds of the bachelor’s degree recipients, had lower rates of unemployment than other groups. But in spite of higher rates of unemployment than white, non-Hispanic students, Asian-American students had higher salaries by 19 percent...