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...received three billion dollars in debt relief—money which has gone toward eliminating student fees for primary school education, thereby encouraging 1.6 million more students to enroll. Cameroon used a $113 million cut in debt service to fund their nascent AIDS program. Mozambique has put a portion of their debt service cuts toward a rural electrification effort...
...least once over the course of two weeks. Close to 10 percent of all students drank this much on three to five occasions during a two-week period. These figures are up from a survey completed in 2000 and indicate that a substantial portion of undergraduate students abuse alcohol on a regular basis. In examining these numbers, the committee must be conscious of the varying ways students use alcohol on campus. Many students at the College drink responsibly; some binge drink on a regular basis. Some students infrequently, maybe once or twice in their college careers, drink a life-threatening...
...vegetables. Dr. David Katz of Yale suggests eating lean beef, pork or lamb once or twice a week, chicken or turkey once or twice a week, and fish and other seafood three to four times a week. For most meat eaters, the harder goal will be to bring their portion sizes down to earth. The USDA considers 3 oz. of meat to be one serving. When was the last time you ordered a 3-oz. hamburger or rib-eye steak? Most steakhouses serve portions large enough to fulfill your red-meat rations for a couple of months...
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...have tumors studded with receptors for estrogen or progesterone. These growths are perfect targets for tamoxifen and letrozole, which block estrogen's tumor-enhancing effects, albeit through two different mechanisms. "Estrogen is like the fuel that runs a car engine," says Dr. James Ingle, who headed the U.S. portion of the trial at the Mayo Clinic. "If you remove the fuel, the engine quits running...