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...margarine that can help cut your cholesterol. The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved a new cholesterol-reducing margarine called Benecol, which is made with a substance found in pine trees. Available next week, it follows on the heels of Take Control, a spread containing a natural soybean extract, which hit the shelves last week. The two new products are among the first of a new series of foods that are designed to act like drugs and promote health or prevent disease. "The studies show that these products may provide cholesterol benefits," says TIME senior health reporter Janice Horowitz...
...evocation of a great era that has passed. For despite the Communist-baiting fears and the network's lack of appreciation for the show, the writers are bound together by loyalty and fondness for each other and for Max. This affection is humorously shown through Ira's determination to extract a declaration of love from Max during their fight and more seriously demonstrated in Max's vow to keep all of his writers on the payroll despite budget limitations. Thus the play does not end with Lucas' speech describing in end of the show, the parting of ways...
...also therapeutic, social and practical reasons to do so. This applies to victims of crimes as well as to those who must deal with the slings and arrows of more common misfortunes--unfaithfulness, betrayal, ungratefulness and mere insult. In the past two years, scientists and sociologists have begun to extract forgiveness and the act of forgiving from the confines of the confessional, transforming it into the subject of quantifiable research. In one case, they have even systemized it as a 20-part "intervention" that they claim can be used to treat a number of anger-related ills in a totally...
...face-to-face feedback shows that Dining Services cares. When was the last time you saw Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 making the rounds of the dining halls? (At least Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson has picked up on the idea.) Perhaps other Harvard administrators can extract a lesson from something the folks at 65-67 Winthrop St. seem to have discovered long ago: While there's only so much you can do to make the food taste better, there are other ways to keep the students happy...
...also want to know more about the potential risks cited on the label. Sweet clover contains powerful anticlotting factors that could be dangerous if taken with aspirin or other blood-thinning medications. Bladder-wrack extract contains extra iodine, which could be a problem if you have a thyroid disorder. But only the amount of iodine, and not the other herbs, is listed...