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...PARIS: The spa at the fashionable Le Meurice Hotel, tel: (33-1) 4458 1010, is stocked with products by Caudalie?the skincare range based on grape-seed extract (a powerful antioxidant). Book the Vinosource Riche facial ($160) and you'll also get rubbed down with freshly squeezed grapes, leaving your skin as soft as a vintage merlot...
...clientele, and a snip at $270. Caviar extract is used instead of actual roe: save the latter for the evening's hors d'oeuvres. PARIS: The spa at the fashionable Le Meurice Hotel, tel: (33-1) 4458 1010, is stocked with products by Caudalie - the skincare range based on grape-seed extract (a powerful antioxidant). Book the Vinosource Riche facial ($160) and you'll also get rubbed down with freshly squeezed grapes, leaving your skin as soft as a vintage merlot. HERSHEY: Visitors to the chocolate-making town of Hershey, Pennsylvania, can enjoy (what else?) an array of chocolate-based...
...Cereality's attempt to crack some Grape-Nuts may have backfired with at least one part of its most loyal customer base--college students. A group from the University of Florida launched a "Cereal Solidarity" campaign last summer on the website freeculture.org criticizing Cereality for bullying rival restaurants with those warning letters. The protests led to an online petition--drawing hundreds of signatures--calling for an end to business-method patents and asking Cereality to withdraw its patent application. Roth says the group is more concerned with ideology than cereal toppings. "Freeculture turned Cereality into a poster child for anti...
...excessive gambling, the new study pinpointed specific neurons involved in the process. “Our work can potentially be applied to rational and irrational human behavior,” Padoa-Schioppa said. The study was conducted by testing macaque monkeys’ responses to varying quantities of grape juice and apple juice. They were found to prefer the grape flavor over apple, and larger quantities over smaller ones. When the monkeys were making the choices, specific neurons in the OFC showed increasing levels of activity in correlation to values assigned to each commodity. Padoa-Schioppa said that there should...
...starters, this is an old story. Indications that a touch of the grape may do the heart some good go back at least 30 years, although each new shot of positive evidence still gets lots of attention. Two weeks ago, a big study in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that a particular pattern of drinking--rather than the absolute amount or the type of alcohol consumed--seems to have the best health effects. The investigators concluded that men who consistently drink a small amount of beer, wine or spirits three or more days a week suffer fewer heart...