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...researchers speculated. The study cost $2.4 million. It was funded by the John Templeton Foundation, which seeks to study the intersection between religion and science. Although previous studies had been conducted on the effects of prayer, limitations such as small sample sizes affected their accuracies, according to HMS researcher Jeffrey Dusek. About 43 percent of American adults have prayed for their own health, and 25 percent have had others pray for them, according to a 2004 survey conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics. Terri Cisse, a graduate student at the Harvard Divinity School, questioned the validity...
Vultaggio does have reason to brag: his brand dominated 2005, a year in which Coke and Pepsi fizzled. "Arizona went nuts," says Jeffrey Klineman, editor of Beverage Spectrum magazine, a trade publication. According to Beverage Digest, Arizona topped the retail iced-tea market in 2005, taking a 32.3% market share in supermarkets, convenience stores and drugstores and picking up more business than any other brand. Arizona's annual sales in major retail-distribution channels topped $417 million, according to Information Resources. The company says its total sales, including Wal-Mart and all the hundreds of tiny corner bodegas that sell...
...biggest basin lies well east of the Bay, in the broad delta formed by the convergence of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers. Among the most catastrophic consequences of a big earthquake in the Bay Area, says University of California at Davis geologist Jeffrey Mount, would be the failure of the delta's aging levee system, which protects not just farmland and residential areas but also the water supply for some 23 million people. Shaken hard enough, the foundations of the levees would crumple, and in a kind of hydrological chain reaction, brackish water from the Bay would surge inland...
...JEFFREY SACHS Enemy of poverty, friend of Bono, he wrote the book on how to help the world's poor. I nominate biologist Edward O. Wilson, who has uncovered hidden laws of biology, charted the interconnections of knowledge, plumbed the sources of human nature and held a lantern aloft to warn the world of the risks of man-made environmental catastrophe. If humankind finds a way to live in peace together, in harmony with nature, he will have played a unique role in that deliverance...
...Jeffrey Sachs...