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...much of the mineral is in a form that the body can use? A cup of milk supplies 270 mg, while a 500-mg tablet of calcium carbonate provides just 200 mg. "The pharmaceutical industry is selling products on the basis of calcium content alone," says Dr. Robert Heaney of Omaha's Creighton University. "Sometimes that is sheer fraud...
...American conscience” as she awarded him the Golden Rose. The award has been presented since 1920 to the writer deemed by the NEPC to have had the greatest influence on American poetry in the past year or over a lifetime. Past recipients include Robert Frost, Seamus Heaney, Czeslaw Milosz, Adrienne Rich, and Mary Oliver. “The Golden Rose is very good luck,” said Der-Hovanessian, noting that several recipients have gone on to win Pulitzer and Nobel prizes. Ferlinghetti read first from his older and better recognized works, including the 1958 collection...
...offer. Always willing to take a controversial stance in her political and cultural commentary, Paglia is also uncompromising in her aesthetic judgments. She conspicuously—and, she said, purposefully—did not include the works of respected poets like Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, and Seamus Heaney in her anthology (see the Sidebar). Hearing her reasons for their exclusion is important. Her analysis of 43 of the world’s most overrated poems would be delightful, infuriating, and a required read for anyone who cares about poetry today...
...knows, for instance, that Kentucky's Mitch McConnell has a thing for Burmese dissident Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize winner who inspired U2's song Walk On. The rest is intuitive. Bono arrives with no security, takes gifts (a leather-bound volume of Seamus Heaney for Patrick Leahy, a framed copy of the Marshall Plan speech for Colin Powell) to suit his host's taste. He poses for every staff picture, and his thank-you notes are handwritten and prompt. He wears whatever he pleases. "I refuse to be anything other than what I am," he says...
...simply, Seamus Heaney inspires the desire to be a better writer and thinker. That alone is worth clearing a calendar...