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...could prevent heart disease, cancer and dementia - and make your skin glow, too. But lately scientists, using more rigorous tests, have had trouble substantiating some of those benefits. Now comes what may be the crowning blow - at least with respect to staving off heart disease. A double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association last week, found that taking 400 IUs of vitamin E each day did nothing to prevent heart attacks or strokes Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine...
...comes what may be the crowning blow?at least with respect to staving off heart disease. A double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association last week, found that taking 400 IUs of vitamin E each day did nothing to prevent heart attacks or strokes in a group of nearly 10,000 mostly elderly patients with cardiovascular disease or diabetes. This disappointing news comes on the heels of the Women's Health Study finding earlier this month that vitamin E confers no cardiac benefit on healthy women age 45 or older...
Granted, there have certainly been growing pains, but the pains should not blind us to the growth. In addition to corrupting and jading China, the Communists have also modernized and industrialized the country. Johnson rightly points out that the tax system and the village democratizations are terribly botched, but we have to keep the discussion in context: these reforms are all of 11 and 23 years old, respectively. Compared to other Communist countries from Cuba to North Korea, China’s record does not look nearly so bleak...
However, just as the growing pains should not blind us to the growth, the progress should not blind us to the problems. Johnson is right in pointing out that in order for the Communist government to survive in the long term, change must come in some form or another. Johnson believes that ultimate political change will come from below, from the sorts of commoners that he portrays in “Wild Grass,” rather than from within the Party. “I think [change] will come from ordinary people, not from some enlightened Gorbachev figure...
...should understand the principle of blind justice better than Attorney General Edwin Meese. Still, he may have been slightly taken aback when he learned that a warrant for his arrest had been issued. Meese's trouble started two weeks ago, when a municipal court clerk in Los Angeles accidentally discovered the five-year-old warrant while scanning computer records. The top cop, it seems, had committed the crime of jaywalking in 1980, right in front of Ronald Reagan's California campaign headquarters. His fine: $10. When Meese, then Reagan's chief of staff, did not pay the penalty, it automatically...