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...obese mice seemed to prevent problems usually seen in chubby rodents (and people), including diabetes, liver damage and premature death. But you would need more than 100 glasses of wine a day to get that much resveratrol. And even if you took it in supplement form, there's no proof it would work as well in humans as in mice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year In Medicine From A to Z | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

...have an issue with this kind of image of perfection that a movie can put across. You want to say to people 'Stop! Stop! It's not real. We've been in makeup for 212 hours. We don't really look like that.' I mean, I'm living proof that we don't really look like that." That last statement, while it looks sweet on paper, and was said earnestly, would actually offer scant comfort to any woman. In the flesh, Winslet's just your regular-looking movie star. (Except for her feet, which are huge--size 11--and about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kate in The Raw | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

When it comes to drunk driving, these laws place the burden of proof on the defendant: Drunk until proven innocent indeed. Mandatory universal ignition interlocks are merely another step down the slippery slope of imposing ever more obtrusive punishments on people who have not been convicted of a crime. You don’t have to be a Montana libertarian—always on the lookout for the U.N.’s Blackhawk helicopters—to see this as another step toward an Orwellian world where the government has a lock-iron grip on individual actions...

Author: By Piotr C. Brzezinski | Title: Drunk Until Proven Innocent | 11/21/2006 | See Source »

...writing a book about how she would have conducted the beheading of her husband? Or Jehan Sadat going on television to describe how she would have engineered her husband's assassination? Such things are impossible. The mere act of engaging in so unimaginably repulsive an exercise is the ultimate proof of Simpson's guilt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why We Should Let O.J. Speak | 11/21/2006 | See Source »

...Hopefully this year can serve as proof that students can behave responsibly and shouldn’t need heavy-handed enforcements,” Haddock said yesterday...

Author: By John R. Macartney and Brittney L. Moraski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: College Pulls Off Tame Tailgate | 11/20/2006 | See Source »

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