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Many Chinese etiquette instructors and authors of best-selling manners manuals are progeny of the high-class aesthetes Mao tried to eradicate. Professor Li of the Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade is the descendant of a cotton tycoon, and grew up eating Western fare like rye bread and cheese for...
PILLS TO PREVENT BREAST CANCER? Evening primrose oil, pressed from the flower's seeds, is rich in gamma-linolenic acid, a substance that a new study in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute found inhibits a gene that causes nearly 30% of breast-cancer cases.
Some experts say our education system, with its strong emphasis on testing and rigid separation of students into different levels of ability, also bears blame for the disappearance of drive in some kids. "These programs shut down the motivation of all kids who aren't considered gifted and talented. [They...
Ongoing studies of identical twins have measured achievement motivation--lab language for ambition--in identical siblings separated at birth, and found that each twin's profile overlaps 30% to 50% of the other's. In genetic terms, that's an awful lot--"a benchmark for heritability," says geneticist Dean Hamer...
It’s pretty difficult to find salvation in a town like Hoboken, N.J. But on Saturday night, that is exactly where a long and grueling journey came to an end for the Harvard field hockey team. The Crimson (6-11, 2-5 Ivy) capped off its season the...