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...debate about how much vitamin D we need has intensified over the past 10 years. One part of the discourse focuses on the growing body of research that points to numerous health benefits of the chemical (actually a hormone): it can help prevent rickets in children and severe bone loss in adults and potentially lowers the risk of multiple sclerosis, juvenile diabetes, cancer, heart disease, colds and influenza. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...apparent at first, but the loss of Jack Kemp, who died on May 2 at 73, calls to mind the parallels he had with another political giant, Hubert Humphrey. As far as I knew, neither had a single political enemy. They may not have achieved the presidency, but each was enormously important in his respective party, in the institutions of government and to the political process. Both were examples of how party members should conduct themselves today...
...University’s $36.9 billion endowment is projected to suffer a 30 percent loss by the end of June, Harvard administrators intend to freeze all non-union employees’ salaries for the next year...
...everyone a job next year. “We’re all really scared,” said William D. Nicolson Jr., who has worked as a general cook at Adams House for 15 years. “Our security is being ripped away.” The loss of security was evident for Stephanie I. Alfred, a saladperson in Lowell House who received her bid form only to realize that her current job position was unlisted and will be eliminated next year. She said she plans to apply for a position on the hot line at Lowell...
...leaders of the church are confident that the destruction of the building is only a physical loss...