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...anti-sugar brigade, warning that plain old table sugar and its gussied up first cousins--honey, molasses, cane sugar, corn syrup and maple syrup--are less than sweet to those who overindulge, and recommending that we stop eating sugar altogether. Two new books, New York Times best seller Dr. Gott's No Flour, No Sugar Diet and Sugar Shock! by Connie Bennett (out in December), caution that the U.S's love affair with sugar is a doomed relationship. (To add insult to injury, the authors also damn simple carbs such as bagels and French bread as almost equally empty calories...
...says the engine, which it expects to market in the U.S. by 2009, will meet California's new emission regulations, the toughest in the world. That could translate to a competitive advantage, since big states like California can shape the global market. "It's a real coup," says Philip Gott, director of automotive consulting for Global Insight. "Honda tends to be very keen on bringing technologies to market first...
...little bit of gossip) on the contenders. It helped that they came from different disciplines: Thomas Cech, who heads the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1989, while Herbert Pardes, the president of New York Presbyterian Hospital, teaches psychiatry at Columbia, and J. Richard Gott is an astrophysicist at Princeton. M.I.T.'s Steven Pinker and Harvard's Stephen Kosslyn specialize in brain and cognitive sciences; Thomas Lovejoy is a tropical biologist who serves as chief biodiversity adviser to the president of the World Bank; and Michael Novacek, provost of science at the American Museum...
...gets even more bizarre. According to Princeton astrophysicist J. Richard Gott, the flow of time loses its meaning when you hop from one universe to another. In the timeless metaverse, in fact, a baby cosmos could beget a baby that would beget a baby that might ultimately give birth to the universe that started it all. "It's quite possible," says Gott, "that the universe could end up being its own great-grandmother...
...Richard Gott III is a professor of astrophysics at Princeton, where he does research on general relativity and cosmology