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...veteran French player Zinédine Zidane, was the sight of his teammate Thierry Henry flinging himself to the turf in response to a prod in the back and for some reason clutching the part of himself least affected - his head. A certain kind of pundit turns horribly blasé in the face of these deceits. Sports, the argument - or rather, the extenuation - runs, are an international business, in which victory guarantees extraordinary financial rewards. It would be surprising if the Italian, or any of the major soccer leagues, weren't more or less corrupt, given the huge revenues they...
...groups of healthy volunteers and gave them cocoa that was either high or low in flavonol, according to the study. Only the group that had taken the high-flavonol drink showed relaxed blood vessels. The study’s authors then turned to the Kuna Indians in the San Blas islands of Panama, who consume three to four cups of flavonol-rich cocoa a day. The Kuna Indians on the islands rarely have high blood pressure, according to Hollenberg, which is not true of those Kuna who move to the mainland and, on average, consume less than four cups...
...more than good advice. On Beauty is a rambunctious, 21st century take on Forster's own novel Howard's End. The debt is evident from the novel's first page. "One may as well begin with Jerome's e-mails to his father," it begins, updating Forster's blasé opener, "One may as well begin with Helen's letters to her sister." Thereafter, Smith revamps Forster's Edwardian battle of wills between the liberal-minded Schlegel sisters and the snobbish Wilcox clan into a modern academic feud that sweeps up the families of Howard Belsey, a white, English, radically...
...NOTEBOOK Taiwan: SARS Gets Loose Japan: Searching for the Stork Bhutan: Pax Interrupta Eulogy: Blas Ople Milestones Letters...
...NOTEBOOK Taiwan: SARS Gets Loose Japan: Searching for the Stork Bhutan: Pax Interrupta Eulogy: Blas Ople Milestones Letters...