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...drinkers and compared them with 10 healthy people who began drinking coffee. The researchers found that drinking 20 oz. of tea every day for at least two weeks doubled or tripled the immune system's output of an infection-fighting substance called interferon gamma. The coffee drinkers, by contrast, registered no difference in interferon-gamma production. Apparently the body metabolizes the tea into molecules that mimic the surface proteins of bacteria, jump-starting the immune system so that when real bugs show up, they can more easily be dispatched...
...runner-up as far as the arts were concerned was Summers himself. An economist who rarely expressed the cultural interests or artistic commitment of his two predecessors, Derek C. Bok and Neil L. Rudenstine, Summers recalls just three student artistic performances he’s attended this year, in contrast to his regular attendance at most home football games. Summers himself says his understanding of the humanities does not compare to his familiarity with social science. If he pursues a policy of benign neglect—or delegated responsibility, as when Summers directed the art museums to report to University...
...higher the reporting relationship, the stronger the message,” the OFA’s Engel says. “I think there would be a gross inequity in perception and in actuality for that reporting relationship to be any lower than it is.” By contrast, the Department of Athletics continues to report directly to the dean...
Summers has held a few breakfasts and dinner parties for arts administrators and faculty, and those present at the meetings say he showed interest and asked intelligent questions. But by contrast to those who sat at his Mass. Hall desk before—Bok, who hosted yearly concerts where student musicans played for faculty, and Rudenstine, who had always professed a love of culture and whose wife was an internationally renowned art collector—Summers comes with little background knowledge. “Summers is totally unconcerned,” Ackerman says of Summers’ commitment...
...imagine the contrast,” he says...