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...team looks much like it did right after apartheid's collapse. In a country where black people make up 80% of the population, the 30-man rugby squad includes just six players of color - only one more than it took to the 2003 World Cup in Australia, in the build-up to which a white Springbok player notoriously refused to room with a black teammate. And only two blacks started the game against Samoa. Zola Yeye, who last year became the first black team manager in the Springboks' 101-year history, says the team's racial makeup is an "indictment...
...mostly hot air, which All Blacks coach Graham Henry has been cutting through in the build-up to the Blacks' opening match against Italy in Marseilles on Sept. 8. Henry sounds like the opposite of a man in denial: "The success of our rugby team is important to the psyche of the nation - we understand that, we agree with that and we live by that." Under the former headmaster, the All Blacks have been potent, winning 38 of their 43 matches since the last Cup. In that time, they've dominated the two sides ranked immediately below them, Australia...
...April, another WHI study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that estrogen-alone therapy benefited women between ages 50 and 59 who had had hysterectomies; these women had up to 40% less calcified plaque build-up in their arteries compared with women on a placebo. In the coming years, other trials, such as the Early Versus Late Intervention Trial With Estradiol (ELITE) and the Kronos Early Estrogen Prevention Study (KEEPS), will provide more data on estrogen's effect on women's health, particularly cardiovascular health, says Rocca...
After over 3,000 pages worth of build-up, this is the book that finally delivers the ultimate showdown between Harry and his evil nemesis, Lord Voldemort. Harry and his friends Ron and Hermione are on the run from a hostile puppet government, on a secret mission to demolish the barriers Voldemort erected between himself and his demise. For most of the book, the three of them are utterly alone, cut off from friend and foe alike, and the solitude around them lets us see even greater nuance in their already delicately crafted relationships...
...This is the only technology available that will really define the presence or absence of calcified or non-calcified plaque," says Dr. Norman Lepor, a professor at UCLA's Geffen School of Medicine, referring to the tell-tale build-up on artery walls that signifies heart disease. Lepor says that CTCA gives off no more radiation than the routinely used diagnostic nuclear stress test, which also detects plaque deposits, but only those that are big enough to block 70% of the artery. "The risk-benefit assessment is in favor of cardiac CT to be used in a judicious fashion," says...