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...routinely been eating soy for thousands of years and where women have markedly lower rates of breast cancer than in the U.S. But whether that's due to soy remains uncertain. "The cultures are just so different in so many ways, in diet and other lifestyle factors," says Mark Messina, a Port Townsend, Wash., nutritionist and an expert on soy. "By itself, the low breast-cancer rate in Asia doesn't provide much insight into the possible effect of soy on breast-cancer risk...
...replaces something less healthful. For instance, consumers would do well to replace regular milk with fortified soy milk. "If it turns out that soy doesn't reduce breast cancer, for example, it's still a good source of protein that's low in saturated fat and cholesterol," says Messina. "To me, it's a complete no-brainer...
...Phil Messina stood in the aisle of a makeshift airplane cabin set up in a hotel conference room and pulled items from a cardboard box. "I can kill you with a magazine, a soda can, a compact disk, a wine bottle, and a fork," he told an audience of airline pilots. Then Messina, a stocky former cop with a Fu Manchu mustache, began thrusting a 6-in. gold object into the air. "But this is the best!" he boasted. "I bought it yesterday at John F. Kennedy Airport." In his hand was a dagger-sized Statue of Liberty with...
...Messina's demonstration was one of dozens at a security training session held last week in San Diego by the Airline Pilots Association, which represents 60,000 commercial aviators. TIME joined 100 pilots, airline officials and law enforcement agents as lecturers delivered the grim news: Flying is far less secure than the pilots hoped, Congress promised or the traveling public believes. Deadly weapons get onto planes every day. Baggage goes unchecked. "There are fundamental flaws in the government's approach to airline security," says former Northwest Airlines pilot Stephen Luckey, who heads ALPA's Security Committee. "They're worrying about...
...well in this setting, poor George looks like he'd rather be somewhere - anywhere - else. However, his guests on this particular episode - Lorrie Morgan (why hasn't she made it big-time?), Sammy Kershaw (unremarkable, but did a nice acoustic version of an old Jones hit) and Jo Dee Messina (who ever heard of a country singer from Massachusetts?) - did a good job of keeping the conversation going...