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...boom, the first and worst of all those new habits is almost surely diet. In a study released in July, scientists traced the eating habits of 3,000 Chinese women, ranging in age from 25 to 64. Half of the group ate a "meat sweet" diet of Western cuisine, rich in red meat, shrimp, fish, candy, desserts, bread and milk. The others stuck to more traditional Asian fare of tofu, vegetables, sprouts, beans, fish and soy milk. Postmenopausal women in the meat-sweet group showed a 60% greater risk of developing the most common kind of breast cancer...
...early to say if these efforts indeed mean a start toward ending the global breast-cancer crisis. In the rich world, a diagnosis of breast cancer may bring terror, but a terror lightened by hope. Elsewhere that is still not the case. If the developed world can work to globalize wealth, then it should be similarly able to globalize the opportunities for health. At last, a curative army is mobilizing to make that happen. Many women are surely still destined to sicken and die before its work is through, but many more will learn to battle a disease that...
...Small Things. Sure, Roy wrote in English, but she lives in New Delhi not New York and is therefore considered a worthier Indian writer - as if geographic location is the only true measure of ethnic and cultural fidelity. "Can it be true that Indian writing, that endlessly rich, complex and problematic entity, is to be represented by a handful of writers who write in English, who live in England or America and whom one might have met at a party?" wondered Indian novelist Amit Chaudhuri in the Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature. Yes, wrote Rushdie in the Vintage Book...
Among the organizations listed as examples of institutions serving the rich were art museums, theaters, and Harvard University...
...room: "How do I speak to the soul of America?" My answer to that was simple: Focus on the children. Their plight is our shame, I told him, and their promise is our future. Reach them and you reach our soul. Bush nodded in agreement. The conversation was rich and deep for more than an hour and a half...