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Holding center stage in antioxidant circles, however, is beta carotene, a complex deep orange compound that is naturally abundant in sweet potatoes, carrots and cantaloupes. Beta carotene is turned into vitamin A by the body as needed. That makes it impossible to overdose on beta carotene, even though taking too much vitamin A can lead to liver damage and other effects...
Given that many rapes go unreported every year across the nation, the College's existing procedures, which seem to compound this reluctance, are completely unacceptable...
...ethics deficiency isn't one. Neither is meanness. Tsongas last Thursday followed Clinton and Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey before the same audience in Nashua. Reporters badgered all three about Clinton's latest problem -- the charge that he ducked military service during the Vietnam War. Kerrey exploited the opportunity to compound Clinton's difficulties, as did Iowa Senator Tom Harkin. Tsongas declined to follow suit...
...study found that patients with this specific form of hypertension can be treated with glucocorticoids, a cortisone compound that blocks hormone production. This treatment is a step up from conventional hypertension medication, Dluhy said, because it is "directed at the adrenal gland, rather than lowering blood pressure unspecifically...
...town is little more than a crossroads with a few shops and an open market. The local People's Committee compound, a series of one-story concrete buildings, would be our base of operations. Four witnesses who had either seen the crash or its aftermath made the trek from outlying villages to be interviewed. Two would serve as guides up nearby Suoi Pai Mountain to the crash site itself. Over cups of bitter green tea, I interrogated the witnesses as carefully as possible...