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This was the third such e-mail sent out in two days, following the attempted robbery of a graduate student near Leverett Towers on Wednesday and the hospitalization of a University employee after he drank a contaminated Diet Coke on Thursday...
...bumbling, indecisive and remote?has seen his approval rate drop below 16%, and that was before the notoriety he gained from his refusal to cut short a golf round to come back to Tokyo to deal with the Ehime Maru accident. Calls for his resignation are ricocheting around the Diet office buildings in Tokyo. Mori is scheduled to journey to the U.S. to meet President Bush in early March, a visit that has been hastily moved ahead because of the submarine accident. But, says Midori Matsushima, a Diet member from the Mori faction of the Liberal Democratic Party...
...Rich--Clinton's new life feels like the old one, minus the power and the pulpit and the retinue of aides. His war room is a half-furnished Dutch Colonial in the New York suburbs; his lieutenant, a former White House valet named Oscar who keeps Clinton supplied with diet Coke while the ex-President dials through the numbers he has entered on his new, imperfectly mastered PalmPilot, calling to justify himself to his friends. Clinton's red-faced rages over the Rich scandal have familiar themes: "setups," overzealous prosecutors, unfair legal cases that never should have gone to indictment...
Longtime readers of this column know that I'm a big fan of eating whole grains as part of a healthful, balanced diet. But that's not always so easy. There are some people--most of them of European ancestry--for whom many grains are dangerous. Their body can't tolerate a protein called gluten that's found in wheat, rye and barley. For reasons that aren't clear, their immune system responds to the presence of gluten in the diet by attacking the small intestine. Gluten sensitivity can lead to severe malnutrition, and appears to increase the risk...
...comes word that this condition, known as celiac disease, may affect the brain as well. In a study published in the journal Neurology, Dr. Marios Hadjivassiliou and his colleagues at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield, England, found that a wheat-free diet dramatically reduced the number of debilitating headaches suffered by some of their gluten-sensitive patients. MRI brain scans suggest that gluten somehow triggered an inflammatory response in the white matter of the cerebrum...