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...subjects in which researchers tested whether vitamin E could reduce lung cancer in smokers, those taking the supplements did not enjoy a lower rate of lung cancer but did develop 34% fewer cases of prostate cancer compared to controls. In the same study, subjects taking supplements that contained a form of selenium also showed a 63% lower risk of developing prostate cancer. But a separate trial of 7,000 heart patients found that vitamin E provided no additional protection against prostate cancer. As for vitamin C, past research has suggested that its potent antioxidant effects may stave off atherosclerosis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vitamins Do Not Prevent Prostate Cancer, Study Finds | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

...younger and more vulnerable years, I didn’t discover this personal deficiency until Camp Harvard. Along with a marauding band of fellow ingénues, I arrived in a Mather suite eager, like Lisel von Trapp, to taste my first champagne. Somewhat serendipitously, it came in the form of a cheap vodka shot handed to me by a particularly urbane senior boy with whom I fell immediately and irrevocably in love. But alas, breaking out into hives does not a good seduction tactic make, so I woke up alone in the morning, regretful, excuseless, and still slightly itchy...

Author: By Nan Ni, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 21! Here Nan Comes! | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

...Perhaps there is still hope for me somewhere down the road, in the form of a pill that cures Asian glow or enough money to buy hard drugs. In the meantime, I can only indulge in my substitute addiction...

Author: By Nan Ni, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 21! Here Nan Comes! | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

...need for individuals to be aware of slavery that exists today and the importance of spurring people to action. Their book, published last June, consists of 95 narratives of people who were recently liberated from slavery. The book also focuses on human trafficking, which is the most prevalent form of American slavery today. According to data from the Central Intelligence Agency, around 50,000 people are trafficked into or transited through the United States annually as sex, domestic, garment, and agricultural slaves. McCarthy, lecturer of Literature and Arts A-86: “American Protest Literature from Tom Paine...

Author: By Youho T. Myong, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Experts Discuss Modern Slavery | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

...shadow Janning all night, [but] he had a lot of help form his teammates,” coach Tommy Amaker said. “It was a great effort and job by Max to battle him for 41 minutes...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NOTEBOOK: Frosh Bounce Back in Defeat | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

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