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Among the most promising and most thoroughly researched probiotics is the GG strain of Lactobacillus, discovered by Dr. Sherwood Gorbach and biochemist Barry Goldin, both at Tufts University School of Medicine. L-GG, as it's called, has been used to treat traveler's diarrhea and intestinal upsets caused by antibiotics. Even more intriguing, L-GG also seems to work against some viruses, including rotavirus, one of the most common causes of diarrhea in children in the U.S. and around the world. Here the effect is indirect. Somehow L-GG jump-starts the immune system into recognizing the threat posed...
Every spring around this time, Gregory Gorbach gets fired. He currently teaches 10th-grade science at Folsom High School outside Sacramento, and he's good at his job. Last month, right on schedule, the principal called him in and handed him a pink slip. But sometime over the summer, once the school district figures out how much money it really has to spend, it may hire Gorbach again. This pattern doesn't do a lot for his morale. "I like teaching," he says, "but if I have to, I'll leave it. I don't feel teachers should have...
Here are some of the burdens Gorbach carries: in four of the past eight years, in schools in Ohio and New York as well as California, he has taught without any textbooks at all. Those that he absolutely needs, he pays for himself. "Homework is pretty well out of the question," he says. At one point he had an annual paper budget of 2,000 sheets for five classes of 28 children each. So if each student used one sheet a day, he would run out in three weeks. "If I want to give a test, I buy the paper...
There is nothing unusual about Gorbach, except that he may be luckier than many teachers. During this spring season of fiscal bloodletting, school ) districts are slicing budgets, and a sense of panic is spreading. One by one, districts are cutting foreign languages, art and music classes, even after- school sports. Class sizes are expanding, and the school year is getting shorter. And every one of these trends is about to get worse, as states are forced to choose between extra cops or extra classrooms, health care or welfare, higher taxes or less of everything else...
...taken a more pragmatic turn. The new breed of upscale vegetarian is giving up meat, red meat in particular, because of the belief that it is unhealthy. The real issue is that red meat ranks high among sources of fat in the U.S. diet. Says Dr. Sherwood Gorbach, professor of community health at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston: "There is persuasive evidence that a low-fat diet can help prevent, and even treat, heart disease, hypertension and diabetes. I'm of the school that holds that low-fat diets also reduce the risk of colon and breast cancer...