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This aromatic spice may be good for more than stirring a hot toddy or sprinkling on a cappuccino. Cinnamon, it turns out, contains a molecule with insulin-like properties that may help people with Type 2 diabetes. A small study in Pakistan showed that 30 patients with diabetes had significantly lower blood levels of glucose, triglycerides and cholesterol after taking cinnamon for 40 days. In a separate study, however, scientists at the University of California at Santa Barbara and the Sansum Medical Research Institute found that not all cinnamon is created equal. While some varieties had no impact, others lowered...
...more quaffable, Oop!Juice (which despite the name is all soda, no juice) offers up blueberry-flavored Gefilte Fizz, sour apple Santa Sauce (which tastes like a melted Jolly Rancher candy) and a cranberry-tinged Turkey Slurpy. All three can be ordered at www.oopstuff.com Also available is Pepsi Holiday Spice, which is regular Pepsi with a peppy pinch of ginger and cinnamon...
...star-studded Nativity scene at London wax museum MADAME TUSSAUDS elevated soccer god David Beckham to biblical status last week, exhibiting wax figures of him and his wife Victoria, a.k.a. Posh Spice, as Joseph and Mary. As pop singer Kylie Minogue hovers angelically, Hugh Grant and Samuel L. Jackson appear as shepherds while Tony Blair, George W. Bush and Prince Philip portray wise men in the display, which will stay up until January. The Vatican has called the scene blasphemous. And with Posh as the Virgin, the church may have a point...
Seniors who have a knack for party planning and haven’t gotten enough of the Harvard social scene are in luck: the College has created a new one-year fellowship for recent graduates to help spice up and smooth the way for more social events on campus...
...possesses an ability to walk into a guest’s room at the worst moment possible (Brock W. Duke ’06) play in the performance is tremendous, and each player provides a certain charming element of their own hilarity, which puts that extra dash of spice into the play’s already piquant brew. Levenson’s talent is not to be overlooked though he is hunched over throughout the play and dons a gray wig as he wiggles about the stage. So convincing was Levenson in his portrayal of the meddlesome old snoop that...