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...work. In fact, a report in the current New England Journal of Medicine says yet again that they do. After examining over seven years the health and diet of nearly 35,000 postmenopausal women, doctors from the University of Minnesota and several other institutions found that those with diets richest in vitamin E had a 62% lower chance of dying from coronary heart disease than those whose diets had the least...
Although virtually unknown in the West, bin Laden is a towering figure among Islamic fundamentalists. His late father rose from peasant origins in Yemen to become Saudi Arabia's richest construction magnate. The family's wealth is estimated at $5 billion, and at 38, Osama bin Laden personally controls a fortune of perhaps $300 million. In the 1980s he became famous in Islamic circles for his heroic role fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan as one of the main leaders of the Arab volunteers. A few years after the war, he went into exile in Sudan, where he runs several businesses...
...pushed for the divorce. It couldn't have been for money. The $3 million she got was mostly earmarked for the care of the children, leaving her in a nasty debt hole. (She's said to owe at least that.) While this settlement from a son of England's richest family would make American divorce lawyers choke, Andrew isn't that wealthy, earning about $420,000 a year, from which he has to pay his staff. And the public has a lot less sympathy for Fergie than for Diana, partly because of Fergie's carefree, sometimes careless ways...
None of that will matter much to people who visit Moscow's Pushkin Museum over the next year, though. For all his character flaws and sloppy science, Schliemann still unearthed one of the richest archaeological troves ever found. And beginning this week, 259 of the thousands of objects he dug from the Turkish soil in the late 1800s will go on public display for the first time in 50 years: diadems of woven gold, rings, bracelets, intricate earrings and necklaces, buttons, belts and brooches as well as anthropomorphic figures, bowls and vessels for perfumed oils...
...international students, Harvard is presently 18.8 percent Asian American, 7.8 percent black and 5.6 percent Latino. But only 15 percent of students come from families which make less than $65,000 a year, an income at the 92.3 national percentile. Essentially, 85 percent of Harvard students come from the richest 7.7 percent of America--hardly a cross-section of our society...