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...Medicine.” Researchers sorted the seniors into three broad categories based on the frequency of their church attendance. The subjects were also monitored for lung health based on their performance in a series of breathing tests over a period of approximately five years. The study used the peak expiratory flow rate—the amount of air a person exhales in one minute—as the benchmark for assessing lung health. This rate normally declines with age, though the study shows that avid churchgoers experience about half the rate of decline as those who did not attend...
...market is both narrow and extremely volatile: imports rose sharply in the second half of the 1990s, only to crash back down again. Despite signs of a recent recovery, sales of French wines in China in 2005 totaled just over $13 million, down from the $20 million peak in 1997. Part of the problem stems from bureaucratic hurdles for importers and heavy import duties that account for 60% of the price of the bottle. "There are still immense difficulties importing wine into China," says Alun Griffiths, wine director at Berry Bros. & Rudd, the big U.K. wine merchant. So will...
...figure out what he has made and thereby saving Bergstein’s paintings from pure abstraction and lending them an unnerving physicality.On the next block over, between Burberry on one corner and Brooks Brothers on the other, is Barbara Krakow Gallery (10 Newbury). Saturday afternoon is home to peak business; true to form, the gallery was buzzing when I went. On the top floor, two large skylights allowed light into the modestly sized gallery. In addition to the works lining the walls, the floor was covered with prints, drawings, and photographs. Jeremy McDonnell, associate director of the gallery, said...
They landed on sulfur island--Iwo Jima to the Japanese army that held it--on Feb. 19, 1945. On the fifth day of the death slog (the battle would rage for another five weeks), U.S. troops had commandeered enough of the island to reach the peak of Mount Suribachi. "Put a flag up there," one officer advised, and a few men did. But some bigwig wanted it as a souvenir, so six other men planted a second pole and raised the Stars and Stripes one more time. That was the tableau captured by photographer Joe Rosenthal--the one that told...
...hard data and macrovariables, but our new employee pamphlets told us that investment banking is really all about people...people investing in banks. Mankiw talks a big game, but we doubt he’s ever wiped down an ATM after hours. And here’s a sneak peak of the future that not even Amartya Sen can provide: it really is full of pneumatic tubes and you’ll never have to leave your car to do investment banking again. As the summer went on, the negative stereotypes that we had formed at Harvard continued to crumble...