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...booster, you would expect all three varieties to be equally effective since they are all broken down by the body into molecules that mimic bacterial proteins. There are differences, however, in the types and amounts of disease-preventing antioxidants various teas contain. Green tea has more of the chemically simpler antioxidants called catechins, whereas black tea contains more complex antioxidants called theaflavins and thearubigins. Chemically, oolong tea is a bit of a mix of the other two. Doctors still don't know whether one type of tea is better for some conditions than others. It's possible that they...
Wang’s attacking strategy in the second set utterly failed as Chao responded to her pace and went up 5-0. Wang then turned to a much simpler goal—stick it out as long as possible...
When the war first broke out, people saw it panoramically. They discussed it in terms of "issues" and "perspectives." Hard and fast distinctions ruled the day--between civilians and soldiers, hawks and doves, conventional weapons and weapons of mass destruction, secularists and Islamists. Life was simpler then. Events fit into stable categories, and the major players wore uniforms that allowed them to be identified from a distance. The armies were in Iraq to fight, the embedded reporters to report and the women and children to stand aside. The battlefield was defined in terms of boundaries--the southern oil fields...
...plausible presidential function, I suppose, but an odd thing has happened to Bush as the war has progressed. He has not grown in stature or gravitas, as wartime leaders usually do; he may have diminished. He seems imprisoned in a bleak, hortatory rhetoric of simple sentences and simpler ideas. Freedom good. Tyranny bad. We Tarzan, world Jane...
...policy change] allows us to focus on those candidates who are free to accept our offer,” said McGrath Lewis. “It’s more honest and simpler for applicants…We did expend a great deal of effort in evaluating people who would not have been in the pool [under the old policy], and we would prefer not to do it again...