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...lengthier and smarter consideration of this topic see the late David Foster Wallace's "How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart," an extended review of Austin's Beyond Center Court: My Story collected in Wallace's Consider the Lobster.) And they have a funny mirrors-within-mirrors, mise-en-abyme effect: they pull back the smooth glossy surface of familiar images and show us the rough, grainy verso. Despite being outside the boundaries of anything remotely resembling literary quality, Moore's book delivers on both counts...
...fracture risk - half were given 1,000 mg of calcium and 400s IU of vitamin D daily, while the other half were not. After seven years, 528 women in the supplement group and 546 women in the control group had developed invasive breast cancer, an equivalent rate, indicating no effect from the vitamin D. Earlier observational trials had found positive links between women's taking higher amounts of supplemental vitamin D and lower breast-cancer rates, and animal studies had also suggested that the vitamin might prevent the disease. The WHI trial hints that the relationship may be more complicated...
...accompanying the study. "But it's not really ethical to tell postmenopausal women not to take vitamin D or calcium, because we know it protects against hip fractures." Future studies, he says, might compare standard doses of vitamin D with higher doses to determine whether the supplements have any effect on the cancer process...
...Semonoff said. DHS agency directors expressed relief that Question One—the ballot measure that would have eliminated the current 5.3 percent income tax—failed to pass last Tuesday. Income tax accounts for nearly $12 billion in state revenue. According to Reddy, the effect of the repeal if passed, would have been “absolutely devastating.” Many centers suffering losses are turning to private grants, though the amount lost in state funding is ultimately irreplaceable, Reddy said. “We can try to make up [deficits] that way, but it is highly...
...Mass. Ave—said he was confident that his store’s unique offerings and high-quality service would keep it afloat during the economic storm. He speculated that the actual weather—or even the parking situation in Cambridge—may have a greater effect on his sales than macroeconomic conditions.“We had a really good October,” said MacDonald. “Sometimes you hear these economic forecasts, and it just doesn’t matter. The things we sell, these ‘affordable extravagances...