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PATRIMONY by Philip Roth...
...comparisons between American sleep patterns and those of other countries. But many researchers believe that all industrialized nations are experiencing sleep-deprivation problems, though usually not as serious as those in the U.S. "The Europeans don't have 24-hour societies like we do," says Henry Ford Hospital's Roth. "If you're in Paris and you're looking for a restaurant at 2 in the morning, you're not going to find one so easily." In Germany most stores close by 6:30 p.m., TV networks usually sign off by 1 a.m., and Sunday remains largely...
...this sort of thing, you'll neverknow...whether it's because the stuff doesn'twork, or whether the stuff wasn't given for longenough and high enough doses," says Mathews-Roth...
Generally, diseases such as those studied inthe Hanover project go though a long promotionstage of 20 years or more, says Mathews-Roth,before the tumor erupts in full force in the body.Any test to measure a drug's effect on skincancer, she contends, whould require monitoringthe patient though both the promotion andinitiation stages, many more years thanGreenberg's study...
...wrong to say that beta carotene doesn'twork on skin cancer," says Mathews-Roth, whoseveral years ago found a positive correlationbetween beta carotene and skin cancer in ratswhich have been monitored from birth--indicatingthe opposite of Greenberg's study. "You can justsay it doesn't work under the conditions of thatstudy...