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...capable of making profound, circuitous statements with multiple clauses, numerous concessions, and several lists. Now, with the whole world at your fingertips, you must decide whether you should shoot it in a hoop, bowl it down a lane, hit it with a club, bounce it, squeeze it, or simply plant and nourish it. That is, you must decide how you will conduct yourself in the world as a Harvard alum.As a Harvard alum, there are several ways for you to get involved. You can take the “passive aggressive approach” by sitting and complaining about what...
Over the past several years, however, researchers have been investigating a whole new class of plant-based substances whose role in preventing heart disease may be even more important than vitamins. Known as phytochemicals, they fall into two classes: carotenoids, found mostly in orange-colored vegetables (beta carotene is the best known of the more than 600 carotenoids); and flavonoids--some 4,000 of them, found in, among other things, onions, broccoli, red wine and tea (green, black and oolong, but not herbal...
...most common mistakes was to buy a mattress cover to protect against dust mites for a child whose asthma was exacerbated instead by plant pollen. Many of those parents then neglected to do what would have helped a lot more: shut the windows to keep pollen out. Another was using a humidifier for a child who was allergic to dust mites; a humidifier tends to be a place where dust mites like to breed. With those allergies, a dehumidifier works better...
...Anything is possible. But US officials believe Russia and China have been driven to a tipping point by Iran?s outrageous behavior. "The fundamental turning point was when Iran took the seals off the [enrichment] plant at the end of January," says a US official. "There was a sense in the room that we have to take concrete action to make it clear to the Iranians that there are two paths...
...Meanwhile, out in Northern California there's a city called Hercules which decided it hates Wal-Mart. Hercules wants to build a cozy tree-lined street of small shops where an old dynamite plant used to be. They don't mind chains, like Starbucks and The Gap. They just don't want a Wal-Mart, which they believe will crush the small stores like sugar ants. Hercules has found no legal means of forbidding Wal-Mart from building on the vacant lot it owns, so this week the city voted to use eminent domain and take the $15 million...