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...most of the book offstage, preaching to Union troops in the Civil War. In March, which won the Pulitzer Prize, Brooks liberates him from obscurity and follows him as he wanders a country divided by racism and blasted by atrocity. March could easily have come off as a preachy pill, but Brooks plays him as a paradox--an intellectual buffeted by passion, a man of faith bedeviled by doubt. He is constantly confronted with moral dilemmas that he can only bluff his way through. But he's aptly named: the deeper March sinks into the mire, the more determined...
...Before You Pop That Pill Are you freaked out by the insert that comes with your medication? Here's what you really need to know about those warnings, as well as other pill-related issues
...took a 50-minute aerobics class three times a week lost only 2.5% of the density in their forearm bones, compared with 9.5% for women who did not exercise. "Osteoporosis is a total life-style problem," emphasizes Heaney. "You can't cure a bad life-style with a pill, and it's a terrible strategic mistake to encourage people to think you can. If I'm sitting all day, don't walk to work, don't carry loads or work in the garden on the weekend, I'm going to lose bone. You can give me all the calcium...
...American college women,” as Harvard economists Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz have termed it.THE ROAD HOMEAccording to a forthcoming article by Goldin and Katz in The Journal of Economic Perspectives, the rise in the median marriage age and the advent of the birth control pill mean that women expect to spend more years in the workforce. In college, women are “no longer...majoring in a handful of female-intensive fields,” Goldin and Katz write. Women are increasingly majoring in the same subjects as men as females realize they?...
That doesn't mean, however, that popping vitamin E pills will stave off heart disease. Previous research had reached a split decision over whether supplementary E could guard against cardiovascular problems. But the study on postmenopausal women, one of the largest yet, concluded that the vitamin was protective only when eaten in foods; in pill form, it didn't seem to do much good at all. This result could mean that the vitamin works in tandem with some other, as yet unidentified, food-borne substance...