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...associate professor at Harvard, Herbert set out to dispel prevailing notions about the causes of anemia, a blood disorder most commonly caused by a lack of iron...
...pants off its enemies. In the southern no-fly zone, leaflets are being dropped warning, none too subtly, precisely what will happen to individual Iraqi soldiers if they choose to resist. (Think a rocket smashing into an Iraqi gunner's battery with such force that it leaves nothing but iron filings and body parts.) Such operations don't always go according to plan. On Oct. 3, a U.S. A-10 attack plane was dropping leaflets in southern Iraq warning Iraqis not to fire on American warplanes--when it was fired on. Sometimes the scaremongering is done at a remove. Recently...
Brussels sprouts These little cabbage heads boast big-time benefits. An excellent source of vegetable fiber, they also contain vitamin C, iron and the B vitamin folate, which may lower the risk of heart disease and, according to the latest research, Alzheimer's. Sprouts also contain cancer-fighting chemicals called indoles. If you insist on greasing up the sprouts, substitute olive...
...pistol fire at a police range, the boom of a hunter's single shotgun blast, the crack of steel on steel as a movie hero slams home a magazine. But in an airy second-floor studio here at the headquarters of the world's oldest firearms manufacturer, in the iron-rich alpine foothills of Gardone Val Trompia, Italy, there's another, more delicate sound: the staccato tapping of engravers adding the tiny finishing touches to the company's custom-made shotguns. And we mean custom: buyers can specify size, shape, materials and just about any engraved design at prices that...
...stage match first required the competitors to “snatch” a kettlebell—a large iron ball with a handle—over their heads with one hand, and then to “jerk” two kettlebells upward from their chests simultaneously...