Word: followers
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...study tracked the eating habits of 75,596 women and 38,683 men enrolled in the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study and the Brigham and Women's Hospital sponsored Nurses' Health Study...
Clearly, the United Nations has not always successfully implemented its decisions. It suffers from the same ailments as any bureaucracy: slow response time, lack of follow-through on policy changes, insufficient accountability measures and internal performance incentives. And as a body of sovereign nation-states, the UN has limited power to enforce its measures...
...follow this spirited skeptic as she looks at lightning head on (in a lighthouse), escapes to sea on a whaling ship (dressed, in Shakespearean fashion, as a boy) and takes Captain Ahab (who has the "mien of a weathered god") to her bed. Naslund is helping us, of course, to see the all-male world of Moby Dick through more compassionate eyes, and its protagonist as he might be glimpsed through "pity's tears." Yet what is remarkable here is not the revisionism. Naslund, author of four much smaller works of fiction, actually matches the master, Melville...
MUTUAL-FUND TAX DODGE On average, domestic mutual funds lose 2.5% of their total returns to capital-gains taxes, and few companies advertise their aftertax performance. Vanguard has become the first big firm to do so; others may follow. Until then, tax-minded investors--those investing outside an IRA or 401(k)--can find about 30 funds that are actively managed to minimize the tax hit. Here are a few top performers...
...time to follow football anyway...