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...WOLFBERRY Otherwise known as lycium fruit, wolfberry is rich in antioxidants and minerals. Considered a yin tonic, it is thought to remove toxins from the liver and kidneys...
...economic crisis in 80 years, everything went right for him. His government lowered interest rates to a level not seen in decades, and foreign reserves rose to a record high. Brazil was last into and first out of the recession, and domestic consumption remained high as the gap between rich and poor narrowed at an unprecedented rate. Rio de Janeiro became the first South American city to win the right to host the Olympics. Meanwhile, Lula's opposition flailed aimlessly. His personal popularity regularly exceeded 70%, leading Barack Obama to call him "the man." In perhaps the most remarkable turnaround...
This breed of Muslim activists, most of them educated and from the middle and upper classes, aggressively embraced a stricter - and increasingly violent - version of Islam. The young Nigerians rebelled against the existing order of their rich and politically well-connected parents in northern Nigeria. "They abhor the stupendous wealth their parents have accumulated and they don't want to have anything to do with them," says Abdulmumin Sa'ad, a professor of sociology at the University of Maiduguri. (See the Nigeria connection of the Detroit terror suspect...
...phenomenon of disaffected offspring of the rich may have inspired the younger Mutallab, but a source close to the Mutallab family says the Detroit terror suspect was not a member of Boko Haram. He told TIME: "We knew Farouk's extreme views and we were always very worried about what may happen to him or what trouble he could get himself into. Even during the last Boko Haram crisis we were all very worried that he may have been involved, but thank God he was not. He is a bit reserved and we thought we should give him some space...
Running a cover story on Glenn Beck is the equivalent of giving a terrorist publicity for setting off a bomb. Beck has made himself rich off people's fears without making the slightest constructive comment on national issues. He's a TV evangelist who makes altar calls and then drives away in his Cadillac...