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WASHINGTON: Got milk? That's not enough. You need more than that if you want strong bones, says the National Institute of Medicine. The institute recommends virtually all US adults should take in more calcium ? upping daily doses to 1,000-1,300 milligrams ? as brittle-bone accidents like hip fractures become increasingly common because many Americans have cut dairy out of their diets...
...wealth. Provisions for education and child tax credits and dream IRAS are phased out at household-income levels between $80,000 and $160,000. With that much income, lawmakers presume, families already have enough money invested in things that will be sold for a capital gain. That's the bone that was thrown to the wealthy--a lower capital-gains tax rate. It's a valuable bone, for sure. The catch is that you have to be invested in order to gnaw on it. The superwealthy will do fine buying and selling things. But many wage slaves just...
...devoid of irony and flush with optimism and unabashed emotion. "Apathy is boring," says Cole. "It takes real courage to have hope." This is music that wants to feel, no matter how much it hurts. Says Jewel: "People are hungry for emotiveness. They want bare honesty, emotional blood-and-bone honesty...
...landmark report in last week's issue of the journal Cell suggests that whatever else Homo sapiens and Neanderthals did, they probably did not make love. In a tour de force experiment that involved extracting a microscopic strand of ancient DNA from the arm bone of a Neanderthal skeleton, a team led by Dr. Svante Paabo of the University of Munich showed that the two species have almost nothing in common, genetically speaking...
...same message: do whatever the job requires, but don't make a big deal of doing something you're being overpaid for. This was an attitude many great male stars of Hollywood's classic age mastered. But Mitchum, achieving prominence late in that period (with his war- and bone-weary platoon leader in 1945's The Story of G.I. Joe), took self-deprecation to new levels...