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...that the body can use? A cup of milk supplies 270 mg, while a 500-mg tablet of calcium carbonate provides just 200 mg. "The pharmaceutical industry is selling products on the basis of calcium content alone," says Dr. Robert Heaney of Omaha's Creighton University. "Sometimes that is sheer fraud...
...there still seems something wrong with staging what amounts to a hostile takeover of a community. Ultimately, the working-class people who live there, including many recent immigrants, are no match for the sheer purchasing power of the University and its constituents. The fragile ecosystem of the Allston community will get crushed underfoot no matter how gingerly the 800-pound gorilla that is Harvard places its steps...
...parties like other high schools in the South are,” says Scott’s mother, Elaine. As an undergraduate, Scott lived in Canaday Hall and Leverett House and concentrated in history. “The thing I loved most about Harvard were the classes and the sheer availability of libraries. I loved that I could take such obscure and interesting subjects taught by people who spent their lives studying those subjects,” she says. Scott, who was on the junior varsity fencing team, suspects that her freshman dormmates were assigned to Canaday according to their...
...fire last week on a car carrying two women, or of Islamic extremists gunning down a tennis coach and two of his players last month for wearing shorts. Iraqis honed their imperviousness to atrocity under Saddam Hussein, when the regime killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi citizens. But the sheer numbers of victims from this war has deepened the desensitization. That may explain why the debates about the overall death toll don't seem to resonate with many Iraqis. "What is the use of numbers?" asks Mithal Alussi, a secular, independent member of the Iraqi Parliament. "When you reach...
...surprise, students have embraced this new schedule with overwhelming intensity. But to the dismay of a studious few and many of the library’s security guards, this intensity has not correlated in quiet reflection on Habermas and Drosophila genes; this intensity has been expressed in scenes of sheer outrageousness that rival even the best Harvard party. There are the traditional acts of sexual promiscuity, as any browser of Craigslist can see. For the lucky few who do find a match, a lockable storage closet on the second floor has made the study break even easier. And when...