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...nutritionists, who know all fats are not created equal, that's good news. Unsaturated fats (those that are liquid at room temperature and contain fewer hydrogen atoms) are comparatively benign, but saturated fats (solid at room temperature with bonds filled, or saturated, with hydrogen) are notorious artery cloggers...
...take it? That's the question doctors and patients have been wrestling with since the results of a National Cancer Institute--sponsored trial were published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine. Compared with a placebo, Merck's finasteride--a drug currently marketed to treat baldness and benign prostate enlargement--appeared to reduce prostate cancer incidence 25%. But in the seven-year study, involving more than 9,000 men ages 55 and older, the finasteride group also had a slightly higher rate of aggressive, "high grade" tumors, which are harder to treat. Complicating matters, finasteride also caused loss...
...nudist press published the results of a five-year study of children raised by nudists. Growing Up Without Shame concluded, rather expansively, that "the viewing of the unclothed human body, far from being destructive to the psyche, seems to be either benign or to actually provide benefits"--typically indifference to such inevitabilities as puberty, sags and wrinkles. Dr. David Fassler, a fellow of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, says such claims haven't been validated by independent psychiatric researchers. But a visit to the camp yielded anecdotal support. An 11-year-old girl described--in disarming detail...
...some sense, the isolation students felt during spring break symbolized the futility and helplessness many experienced all year. War was long preached as an eventuality, and students only half-listened as rhetoric that first emphasized “regime change” shifted, only semantically, to a more benign emphasis on disarming Iraq and liberating its people. For those not silenced by challenges to their patriotism—less compelling on a Harvard campus that exiled ROTC almost 35 years ago—dissent was chilled by the possibility that Bush was not being deceitful, that Saddam did possess weapons...
...It’s become quite clear that the kind of technology that was used in the facility is not a benign technology,” he says. “The University went ahead and purchased diesel generators that run on residual fuel, which is the least expensive and, incidentally, the most dirty fuel...