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...scientists already knew that fats belong to a class of compounds known as esters, which are made from acid molecules linked with alcohol molecules. So they started tinkering with the number of fatty acids that could be attached to a molecule of alcohol. In the process, they made an unexpected discovery. In laboratory animals, an ester composed of an alcohol and one fatty acid was pretty well digested and absorbed. But two fatty acids were better, and three were better still. The chemists reasonably assumed they could keep adding more...
...neat, dressy and full of decorum that you can hardly compare them to the rowdier figures elsewhere in 17th century Dutch art, coming on with wineglasses and making gestures of sexual insinuation. Vermeer's are seldom marked by experience, and except for maids and servants, they all belong to the same stratum--a class, needless to say, rather above his. Does this make them insipid? Sometimes, yes, but it can also turn them into vessels of lyric innocence, as in the Girl with a Pearl Earring, 1665-66, with her liquidly painted turban of virginal blue, who turns her shining...
...Testament characters as Moses and Abraham, but what of the central figure of the New? Was Jesus of Nazareth a real person who trod the dusty roads of Palestine in the 1st century? Or were his life, death and resurrection, as recorded in the four Gospels, events that belong entirely to the realm of faith...
...showcase, we should not feel pressured to conform to any one group's definition of "the holiday season." Religion should be self-defining, and we should note that that entails serious responsibility and vision. We should take a hard look at our religious symbols to see if they belong in our dining halls and house common rooms. Without an educational purpose, they border on being improper. But as long as people are exposed to multiple traditions and learn more about them, go ahead and deck the halls with boughs of holly. I'll start planning the model Seder...
...total number returned to Haiti in the past 10 months. Aristide, who has never agreed to forced repatriation, argues that the resurgence of boat people is the result of economic hardship, which U.S. aid would alleviate. He also accused the U.S. of seizing and holding thousands of documents that belong to the Haitian military forces, saying the records are needed to prosecute human-rights violators. The Pentagon insists the papers belonged to the deposed military regime, not the Aristide government, and became U.S. property when American soldiers seized them last year...