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...moving up sharply about 10 minutes before her report, while stocks she mentioned in a negative way had moved down, according to a new study by Jeffrey Busse and Clifton Green, finance professors at Emory University's Goizueta Business School. The study supports the notion that Wall Streeters have fed Bartiromo market-moving information and traded before she aired it. In his book Trading with the Enemy, Nicholas Maier alleges that his former boss, trader and pundit Jim Cramer, was one of those who gamed Bartiromo. Cramer denies the accusation. Says CNBC: "We firmly stand by the work, ethics...
Dramatic proof was found by Dr. James Joseph at Tufts University's Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, in a study of 40 elderly rats with dementia. Thirty of the rats were fed high-antioxidant extracts from blueberries, strawberries or spinach. All showed improvement in working memory compared with the 10 rats that were not fed supplements. So it makes sense to load up on antioxidants (which are also found in prunes, plums, raisins, cranberries, raspberries, Brussels sprouts and broccoli) as well as beta-carotene (in carrots and cantaloupes) and vitamins...
...instance, Poussaint recalls a time he objected to a scene that showed the youngest Huxtable daughter, Rudy, crying as her mother combed her hair. The image, Poussaint said, fed into hurtful stereotypes in the black community of good and bad hair...
...there may be a subtler explanation for why breast-fed babies are smarter. Think of the duration of breast-feeding as a measure of the interest, time and energy that a mother is willing to invest in the child during the whole upbringing period. As the authors note, it may be that "mothers who spend more time breast-feeding during the first year of life also spend more time later interacting with the child...
Whatever the reason, the bottom line is the same. "If you can breast-feed, do it," says Reinisch. For the record, Reinisch is a very smart woman with a Ph.D., yet she was never breast-fed. I was breast-fed only briefly, and while I think I probably could have used a few extra IQ points, my mother assures me that I turned out just fine...