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...picnics: margarine that can help cut your cholesterol. The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved a new cholesterol-reducing margarine called Benecol, which is made with a substance found in pine trees. Available next week, it follows on the heels of Take Control, a spread containing a natural soybean extract, which hit the shelves last week. The two new products are among the first of a new series of foods that are designed to act like drugs and promote health or prevent disease. "The studies show that these products may provide cholesterol benefits," says TIME senior health reporter Janice...
...have been making a pressure-packed debut. Adding to the stress of combat has been the close eye of B-2 skeptics. But speaking to TIME last week in their first interviews, pilots say the machine has been a dream to fly. The men described taking off over the soybean fields on 30-hr. flights, often made by pairs of planes, with two men aboard each. One sometimes naps while the other monitors the plane's computer systems, which do 95% of the flying. When the B-2 disgorges one of its bombs, pilots say the plane bumps like...
Meantime, Seaboard failed to invest in upgrading its sewage-pretreatment facility. As a result, its waste began to overwhelm the city's municipal treatment plant. The city normally placed its treated sludge on soybean cropland, but by the second summer, city officials were in search of more land. As Sparks recalls, "We had so much sludge accumulation that...we had to go out in the middle of the summer, buy a crop [for $36,000] and plow it under because our storage capacity was exceeded...
However, Jeffrey P. Yarbro '99, chair of theIOP Student Advisory Committee and son of aTennessee soybean farmer, said he was happy withthe attention Glickman paid to issues concerningsmall farmers...
...THAT A FAT? In women, it's not the total amount of fat consumed that matters, it's the kind. Soybean and olive oil can actually reduce the risk of heart attack. Stick margarine, though, dramatically increases it--even more than fat from meat...