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...life in China, but distance can give them a fresh perspective - and freedom to say things unwelcome in Beijing. The Uninvited will not get Yan invited to many Beijing banquets. Dan Dong and his wife Little Plum have come to the capital from impoverished Gansu province and a childhood diet of "dark gruel made of tree bark and sorghum." Subsisting now on noodles and expired canned goods, they marvel at the urban paradise around them. Little Plum, writes Yan, "roams the supermarket, admiring stacks of dish detergents, napkins and bath towels as if they were flower beds or pavilions...
Oenophiles rejoiced last week when headlines trumpeted a study suggesting that the fountain of youth flows with red wine. Scientists at Harvard Medical School and the National Institute on Aging found that mice fed a high-calorie diet along with large doses of resveratrol--a natural substance found in grape skins--lived longer than mice given no resveratrol. Many of the negative effects of gluttony, such as liver damage and diabetes, were mitigated. One big consequence was not: the mice still...
...less likely to die than those that weren’t, and that the resveratrol reduced their chances of developing age-related diseases to the level of mice of average weight. “After six months, resveratrol essentially prevented most of the negative effects of the high calorie diet in mice,” Rafael De Cabo from the National Institute on Aging, who was the other senior author, said in a Harvard Medical School press release. However, the mantra among researchers involved in the study yesterday was that it is too early to know whether the chemical will...
...study even suggests that a traditional diet may be good for a carbon diet; the report, to be published this month in The Engineering Economist suggests that people who are overweight burn more gas when they drive. But whether it's low carb or a low carbon, all diets have one thing in common: they only succeed long term if people find a way to maintain the healthier habits past the initial burst of enthusiastic good behavior...
...spasms. In the pantheon of YouTube phenomena, Michael J. Fox's Missouri Senate ad is no Evolution of Dance or lonelygirl15. Unlike the online videos that usually catch on, it has no white rappers or cool choreographed treadmill routines; no one lip-synchs or makes a geyser with Diet Coke and Mentos. Yet this short TV spot may have done more than any other to show YouTube's potential as a political force. In the ad, Fox, a longtime Parkinson's disease sufferer, endorsed Democratic Senate hopeful Claire McCaskill and criticized her opponent, Senator Jim Talent, for opposing "expanding stem...