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...When the flame is lighted in Athens this August, the Olympic Games will have returned to their rightful home - correct? Tell it to the townsfolk of Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire, England, where they've been hosting their own version of the Games off and on since 1612. Indeed, if Pierre de Coubertin, who founded the modern Olympics in 1896, had been taken literally when he asserted that "The Anglo-Saxon race is the only one that fully appreciates the moral influence of physical culture," we all might have been spared synchronized swimming. Instead we might be cheering as the world...
...health benefits of omega-3 fatty acids has mounted. But how safe are those supplements? The same pollutants that contaminate fish--including mercury, dioxins, DDT and PCBs--can also contaminate the fish oils made from them. The latest troubling news: a study finding that levels of a flame retardant are rising in samples of cod-liver...
Liberty fielders committed five errors and Flame pitchers threw a pair of wild pitches in crucial situations, miscues that permitted Harvard to dispatch its opponent swiftly...
Winter seems to be in its dying days. But to make damn well sure that winter is vanquished to the cold, dark hell from whence it came, Gossip Guy has amassed a not insignificant arsenal of flame-throwing lies, Molotov innuendos and low-yield nuclear rumors...
...French professors enthusiastically recommend Sandrine’s, the local bistro on Holyoke St. C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France and Professor of Comparative Literature Susan R. Suleiman rave about the saurkraut sausages, while Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Alexia E. Duc loves the Flame Kuch, a hearty pie made with cheese, lard, bacon and eggs. Both Suleiman and Duc praise Sandrine’s for its fine replication of dishes from Alsace, a region in Eastern France. Duc, a native of France, laments that French restaurants in America are “expensive...