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...around the campus asking several groups whether they’d help her start a mariachi band. Her main selling point was that it would be the first of its kind at any Ivy League university. To Garcia’s delight, Mariachi Veritas was performing by Cinco de Mayo of her freshman year...
...that have undoubtedly saved Americans millions of dollars in insurance premiums. It's time for those who wish to live in Hurricane Alley to build houses that are more wind- and water-resistant so my tax dollars don't have to subsidize federal insurance for their beachfront housing. Dobb Mayo Holland, Michigan Spain's New Man In his interview with time, Spain's Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero claimed that "sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength" [Sept. 27]. To repeat an old saying, That's like comparing apples to herrings...
Grilling, by London's Eric Treuille and Birgit Erath, mixes Asian, Mexican, Middle Eastern and European ideas to produce such creations as curried coconut chicken, cinnamon quail with pomegranate glaze and red-snapper tacos topped with chili lime mayo...
...people who have memory problems (slips of the tongue, brief memory lapses) but can still balance a checkbook or prepare a meal. The drug they were given, Pfizer's Aricept, is widely prescribed for patients who already have Alzheimer's. In a trial conducted by researchers at the Mayo Clinic, nearly 800 patients were randomly assigned Aricept, a placebo or vitamin E for three years. In checkups after six, 12 and 18 months, people in the group taking Aricept showed fewer signs of dementia than the people taking placebos or vitamin E, although by the end of the three years...
Many were surprised that vitamin E did no better than a placebo in the Mayo experiment. Vitamin E is a potent antioxidant, and previous studies had shown that taking megadoses of the vitamin could keep Alzheimer's patients out of a nursing home a little longer. Perhaps what's called for is a mix of drugs and vitamins...