Word: boosterism
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...novices had their best race of the year,” Brown said. “It’s a nice confidence booster for them...
...still contradictory. A few large epidemiological studies support the health claims, but others do not. Smaller experiments, like the Brigham and Women's study, can only hint at theoretical benefits. They don't prove anything. Even if tea does turn out to be some kind of general immune-system booster, the effect can't be that strong. After all, there are millions of tea drinkers in China, and yet diseases like SARS somehow manage to take hold and spread...
Finally, a word about the different types of tea. There is only one true tea plant, Camellia sinensis. (Herbal teas are made from other plants.) The main varieties--black, green and oolong--reflect different processing techniques. If tea is in fact an immune booster, you would expect all three varieties to be equally effective since they are all broken down by the body into molecules that mimic bacterial proteins. There are differences, however, in the types and amounts of disease-preventing antioxidants various teas contain. Green tea has more of the chemically simpler antioxidants called catechins, whereas black tea contains...
...students; it only opens up doors that would otherwise be closed to these talented and exceptional minority leaders. Today’s business world is still, unfortunately, haunted by the very real specter of racism, and superficial nods to colorblindness can only hinder progress. SVMP serves as an irreplaceable booster to qualified minority students, helping them to prepare for a world in which they will almost certainly be victims of deep-seated prejudice and bias...
...their way into Baghdad, they will be setting up shop in offices and hospitals that for the most part were carefully spared by U.S. bombers but were emptied of every last desk chair by people so poor, they looted the garbage. In Basra thieves wrecked equipment in the electrical booster stations, which in turn cut off the water supply once again. The headquarters of the company that oversees all oil production in the south of the country was pillaged. "Where is the security?" asked an enraged Kareem Judy, 42, an engineer in British-controlled Basra, as he stood outside...