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...following David Greybeard, who was the first to lose his fear of humans, and I thought I had lost him. I was going through a thick tangle and I found him sitting, waiting—at least it seemed he was waiting. I picked up a palm nut lying on the ground, which they love, and held it out to him and he didn’t want it. He turned his head away, I put my hand closer, he took the nut, dropped it, and then very gently squeezed my hand—which is how chimps reassure each...
...Domoslawski's work for its honest portrayal of the man. "I find that the author tries to be fair, allowing many different voices to speak," British historian Timothy Garton Ash wrote in the Guardian newspaper. "He captures the Ryszard I knew, starting with a brilliant evocation of his warm, nut-brown, disarming smile ... But this book is the protracted cry of a worried and even a disappointed disciple - one who, in his nearly three-year journey of investigation, found things that deeply disturbed him." (See more about Ryszard Kapuscinski...
...skin. But after just three months, most of the kids were able to eat five peanuts a day with no reaction; at the end of year, the majority of them could safely eat 32 peanuts, which meant they no longer needed to read food labels for possible nut contamination. Clark has just embarked on a three-year, $1.5 million controlled trial to test the same treatment in 104 children with peanut allergies. Similar studies are also under way at Duke University and Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, among other places...
Iverson, a hockey nut, did score two free tickets - to a cross-country skiing event held 2½ hours from Vancouver. "Look, I'd give up a lot of my life to be at Canada Hockey Place watching all the games," says Iverson. "But I'm still a part of something. This whole experience makes we want to go to the next Olympics to help...
...precursor of osteoporosis triggered by her avoidance of calcium, her doctor in upstate New York, where she attended college, had never heard of orthorexia. "You should be trying to eat healthy," she remembers him telling her. He couldn't quite grasp that he was talking to a health nut who believed there were few truly healthy foods she felt were safe to eat. Her condition was eventually identified as anorexia, a diagnosis that organizations like the Washington-based Eating Disorders Coalition think is a mistake. The group, which represents more than 35 eating-disorder organizations in the U.S., wants orthorexia...