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...Bianchi notes that melatonin, valerian root and rose hips are all on the FDA's list "Generally Regarded As Safe," or GRAS, right alongside sugar and salt. "Anything to excess is going to be bad for you," Bianchi says. "I can sleep at night with confidence that our consumers can enjoy and be fine with the product." The CEO says no one has complained of Drank side effects. For DiPersio, however, GRAS isn't good enough. "Just because something is on the GRAS list doesn't mean the product is definitely safe," he says. "You don't know the source...
...with everything else, there are foodie progressives and foodie reactionaries, and they look at the peanut-soup problem differently. Mark Kurlansky, the best-selling author of Salt and Cod, has a new book, titled The Food of a Younger Land: A Portrait of American Food - Before the National Highway System, Before Chain Restaurants, and Before Frozen Food, When the Nation's Food Was Seasonal, Regional, and Traditional - From the Lost WPA Files (yes, he's the reactionary). It's a collection of manuscripts from an unfinished Depression-era Works Progress Administration (WPA) project to compile local food customs into...
With his bushy salt-and-pepper hair, scraggly goatee and bohemian airs, Ai Weiwei doesn't fit the mold of earnest human-rights campaigner. But the 52-year-old Chinese artist has made the cause of documenting every child killed in last May's massive earthquake in Sichuan his own. Leveraging his position as one of the country's best-known artists - he had a hand in designing the Olympic Bird's Nest stadium and is the son of China's most prominent modern poet - Ai has managed to help keep the issue of why so many schools collapsed, killing...
...endeavor.” Roberts normally inaugurates every HAA 1 course, an introduction to general art history that features a different professor each week, with a lecture on the Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson. The Spiral Jetty is a 1,500 foot-long earthwork made of rocks, mud and salt that juts into the Great Salt Lake. The land art is left totally unprotected against nature—it dips below water level, changes color and erodes. Roberts says that she chooses this piece every year to “break down people’s assumptions about art history...
...medical school dominated the “research” category—with a overall score of 100, versus the second-place school, Johns Hopkins, at 81. Jules L. Dienstag, Dean for Medical Education, said that she was proud but took the rankings with a grain of salt. “While we are heartened by this news, we do not believe that such ranking systems capture the full scope of the student experience,” she said. “Like all our peers, we are constantly striving to improve and augment educational and research opportunities...