Word: grapefruits
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...wines, and the Yellow Jersey sauvignon blanc, at $15, wasn't bad. In fact, I felt, oddly, snobbishly worldly pouring it from a plastic bottle. It was as if I were saying, I drink so much wine that I don't have to pretend that this slightly flat grapefruit explosion I'm going to down with leftovers is special. Plus, I tend to drop things a lot when I drink...
...candy - had a two times greater risk of breast cancer than peers who stuck with traditional Asian diets consisting of vegetables, soy and fish. A separate study of 50,000 postmenopausal women, published in the current British Journal of Cancer, found that women who ate a quarter of a grapefruit or more a day were up to 30% more likely to develop breast cancer than women who ate no grapefruit at all. But the findings are preliminary and the study's authors say more research is necessary before they can make any claims about individual foods and their effect...
...Wright is an actual filmmaker. His acute sense of visual wit, rich but not assaultive, puts me in mind of Buster Keaton's classic silent farces. To Wright, the movie screen offers a smorgasbord of small, savory gags to be sampled by the attentive viewer; it's not a grapefruit pushed in your face...
...BENEFITS Giving to a cause has become a theme in holiday sales for beauty products. MAC's Viva Glam initiative has helped raise more than $80 million for AIDS charities. And Kiehl's continues its support of YouthAIDS, giving it 100% of the profits from sales of its popular Grapefruit hand-and-body cleanser. On Dec. 1--World AIDS Day--Kiehl's will up the ante and donate to YouthAIDS 100% of the profits from the sale of all products in 36 stores around the world. So far, the company has raised more than $300,000 for the cause...
...eats everything") were assumed by anthropologists to be mythical. That was until a team of Australian and Indonesian researchers excavating a cave on the island uncovered ancient bones that included the 18,000-year-old skeleton of a 1-m-tall female with a brain the size of a grapefruit. In 2004, they announced in Nature magazine that the bones were the remains of a previously unknown species of human?which they named Homo floresiensis?that coexisted for a time with modern Homo sapiens. The remarkable discovery of this ancient hobbit meant the history of human evolution would have...