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...will be in each straw - might seem like a disgusting idea. But Baron's Sydney-based company, Unistraw, says there's a lucrative and growing global market for probiotic bacteria (the name comes from the Greek words "for" and "life"). These so-called "good" bugs live in the human gut; the claimed benefits of boosting their numbers include better digestion and a stronger immune system, the easing of allergies, stronger nails and shinier hair...
...underlined the isolation and desperation of war and its aftermath. In the closing moments of the piece, the dancers formed a two-line “river” that stubbornly jerked Klein’s character backward as she struggled against the human current, evoking a gut-wrenching image that Graham detailed in the subtitle to the piece: “devastation—homelessness—exile.”The Boston Conservatory Dance Theater’s performance was a reminder of what the synthesis of vision, artistry, and skill in dance really looks and feels like...
...attend a school within 75 miles of Cambridge and had not previously participated on a top-10 team at the February tournament, the main competition that has been held each year for the past decade. The competition involved two individual rounds, a team round, and a “gut round,” where teams work 12 sets of three problems. The score is automatically updated and publicized each time a team rushes to turn in a set and receives a new one. “The gut round is probably unique to our tournament,” said...
...Time" Factor The brewers arms in the Christchurch suburb of Merivale attracts a range of patrons, from high-fliers to battlers and everyone in between. In the evenings, the genial publican Wayne Williams likes to move among them, to hear their stories and their gripes. "My gut feeling is we're going to get a change of government," he says. Williams hopes his feeling is right. He respects Clark - he once watched her in a meeting "cut through the bulls... in no time flat" - and voted Labour in 2005. "But not this time," he says. "The place needs an overhaul...
...make them famous," he likes to promise - would compete with his need to curry favor with as many allies in Washington as he can find. His desire to leave a mark on history - by signing a Democratic energy bill or health-care-reform bill, say - would clash with his gut-level identification with the gop. Washington veterans agree that McCain's conservative ideas for tax cuts and health-care reform wouldn't stand a chance in a Democratic Congress. But he might enlist enough swing-district Democrats - whose hold on their seats is tenuous - to join congressional Republicans...