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Salmon steaks are great sources of heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids. But according to the Environmental Working Group (EWG), salmon can also contain dangerous doses of cancer-causing polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), especially if the fish comes from your local grocery store...
Since his discussion group met a couple of times in the Lowell House common rooms last year, he has fallen in love with the College’s residential system, which he calls “the Alpha and Omega of all things Harvard...
...having dimensions you associate with the Army Corps of Engineers. In the late 1970s, it was Dia that bought artist Donald Judd a derelict, 340-acre Army post in Marfa, Texas. Judd filled it mostly with his rows of concrete, wood or aluminum boxes, the alpha and omega of Minimalist sculpture. It's Dia that in 1977 paid for and still superintends The Lightning Field by Walter De Maria--400 stainless-steel poles arrayed in a rectangular grid in the desert of New Mexico: width, 1 km; length, 1 mile. If Dia had been around 4,500 years...
...During the period in question, Zimmerman was employed at Omega Advisors, a hedge fund based in New York City, while Becker worked at Jennison Associates and then at Salomon Smith Barney. In the case of Drugstore.com, Zimmerman allegedly bought the stock just before Becker issued a positive report. With Avon and eBay, Zimmerman sold shares short-a bet that their prices would fall-just ahead of the release of negative reports. The Avon tip allegedly came not from Becker's research but from that of a former colleague at Salomon, who had asked Becker for advice before issuing a negative...
MERCURY You may not be into heavy-metal music, but if you are a fish eater, heavy metals are inside you. The omega-3 fatty acids in big, deep-ocean fish are good for the heart, but the flesh of fish at the top of the pelagic food chain also tends to be laced with pollutants. Chief among them: mercury, which can increase the risk of heart disease. Should you fish or cut bait? So far it's a draw, with two major studies coming to opposite conclusions. Until more studies are completed, doctors believe that the benefits of fish...