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...research analyzes 206 studies on the health effects of juice, milk, and soft drinks - all of them published over the five-year period ending Dec. 31, 2003, and archived in the National Library of Medicine's online database, Medline. Ludwig says his team focused on beverages because they provided a discreet, easily analyzed sample to test the hunch that nutritional science might be skewed by industry dollars. (More studies would be needed to assess the impact of sponsorship on food research, which the study did not address...
...asked about the Iraq invasion, including a German air-force general, said it would only make things worse. It was that simple. I'm surprised that Henry Kissinger, Colin Powell and others didn't have that insight. I am afraid the fear of being labeled un-American and soft on terrorism was enough to quiet the voices of many in Washington who knew better. Jim Buckley Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany...
...interview last week, says that “soft power is the ability to get what you want through attraction rather than coercion.” He adds that university presidents—unlike corporate executives or military leaders—do not have much “hard power,” such as the ability to hire and fire faculty members...
...depends upon their ability to attract others to their persuasion,” Nye says. “Very often women have an intuitive sense of soft power...
...although Nye says that “soft power” can be wielded by a man or a woman, he says he would be “delighted” if a woman moved into Mass. Hall, the home of Harvard’s central administration...