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Juggling apples and eating them at the same time is a messy affair. Yet the fine art of eating and throwing fruit makes a tidy set of bookends to Ryuji Yamaguchi’s Harvard career. First, there was the freshman talent show way back in the fall of 1999 where he introduced himself to the awestruck Class of 2003 Tercentenary Theatre crowd by juggle-eating apples. He also balanced a chair on his chin, a small sample of the masterful skills he nurtured as a teenage street performer in his childhood home of Tokyo...
...astonished by the story about the vaccine made from freeze-dried tomato juice that comes from fruit carrying a gene from a strain of the E. coli bacterium. This vaccine can fight off diarrheal diseases. I didn't realize such a thing was possible. I'm glad to know there are scientists trying to find better ways to combat disease in impoverished Third World countries. MARIA MAMAH Union Springs...
...says Monica, a senior, as she describes the first time she cheated on a (now) ex-boyfriend. “I’d been having this miserable semester and this guy down the hall from me just kept flirting with me. He was like my fucking forbidden fruit. I knew I needed a release and somehow I felt like I just had to do this. It was something I needed for myself—and my sanity...
There's reason to believe that the principle could bear real fruit. About 20 of the 100 or so strains of HPV have been linked to cervical cancer, but 70% of cervical tumors are caused by just two strains--HPV-16 and HPV-18. Koutsky and her colleagues focused on HPV-16. In their study, they inoculated 768 women with a prototype anti-HPV-16 vaccine developed by Merck Research Laboratories; an additional 765 women were injected with a placebo. Both groups carried on with their normal sexual activity. After an average of 17 months, not a single woman...
...meals, those dollars buoy cash-strapped schools in other ways, funding field trips and buying sports equipment. They also lure kids away from healthier options. In one study by the Children's Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine, students in schools with snack foods consumed 50% less fruit, juice and vegetables...