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...Fatty Fish Remember good cholesterol and bad cholesterol? It turns out there are good fats and bad fats too - although all fats still contain nine calories per gram. Health experts are increasingly intrigued by a group of good fats called omega-3 fatty acids, and what's good about them is that they lower the level of triglycerides (one of the bad fats) and decrease the risk of suffering a blood clot. Salmon, sardines and tuna are so full of omega-3 fatty acids that the American Heart Association for the first time recommended that everyone...
...cellular manufacturer after Nokia. To discourage what they call misleading comparisons, the companies will place a statement in boxes that declares all phones that emit radiation below the Federal Communications Commission SAR ceiling of 1.6 are equally safe. (An SAR measures the energy in watts per kilogram that one gram of body tissue absorbs from a cell phone.) "There's no evidence that any number below the threshold is safer than any other," says Chuck Eger, Motorola's director of strategic and regulatory policy for personal-communications products...
President Neil L. Rudenstine appointed Robert H. Giles curator of the Neiman Foundation, a fellowship pro gram for mid-career journalists, on June 25, even after protests delayed the move for three weeks...
...apologized for its Holocaust role: abbr. 10. Kind of cow, horse, dog or man 12. The Justice Department will compensate his estate for his tapes and papers 15. Aquino's successor in the Philippines 19. Unknown, on a sked 21. Jesse Ventura, once 23. Prefix with log or gram 24. Novi __, Serbia 26. Web short-hand meaning "editorially speaking" 27. Place to get roasted 29. Georgia, once: abbr. 30. Get the lead out of your shoes 31. Its President wants France to write off some debts 33. Word on Spanish air mail 35. Tolkien tree creature 36. Thurmond has petitioned...
MIGHTY MITES Ever wonder who's really in bed with you? Government researchers did. After collecting dust samples from beds in 800 homes, they declared U.S. bedding to be rife with dust mites--and their excrement. Droppings are estimated to exceed 2 mg per gram of dust, a level known to trigger allergies, in 44 million homes. In half of these, they're fivefold higher, a significant danger for asthma sufferers. What to do? Keep room humidity low (mites love moisture), wash linens in hot water and zip up duvets and pillows in impermeable, allergen-proof covers. Alas, these measures...