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...First the news. A U.S. study of more than 36,000 healthy postmenopausal women determined that taking a standard calcium-and-vitamin-D supplement for seven years had no significant effect for most of them on preventing fractures in the spine, arms and hips, although it did lead to a 1% improvement in hip-bone density. Yet women who managed to take the vitamin-mineral combo at least four days out of five had a statistically significant 29% fewer hip fractures. And women over 60 suffered 21% fewer broken hips...
...description of the economic reality Hu faces every morning: "Listen," Bush said, "China's a country that has to create 25 million jobs a year just to stay even. Think about that." He left it to Commerce Secretary Gutierrez to play what one former U.S. trade official called "the standard 'He Tarzan, me Jane?I may not be able to rein in the big brute' routine." Congress, Gutierrez warned last week, "may go down a path that none of us want...
Minority enrollment was miniscule in these years—with schools such as the largely Jewish Brandeis University in nearby Waltham and predominantly African-American Howard University in Washington, D.C. catering to students outside the standard Harvard demographic of those years...
...Clinton Justice Department. According to the latest Boston Globe poll, Patrick is gaining ground but still faces an uphill battle against Democratic frontrunner Thomas Reilly, the state attorney general, who holds a 13-point lead. “If he can get elected, he will set a high standard for public service,” McGovern said of Patrick. “Other good people will want to be a part of it.” McGovern said that he was especially impressed with the honesty that he has seen from Patrick, citing the candidate’s recent trip...
...common trend among new musicals is a by-the-books run-through of all the dramatic conventions of what audiences expect out of musical theater, and nothing more. You have the standard big dance numbers, the corny dialogue, the old-fashioned tongue-in-cheek Broadway humor. This almost maniacal dedication to what is least likely to surprise, confuse, or offend passes as a celebration of tradition at best; at worst, it becomes a tired, nauseating series of in-jokes. No matter what arguments writers, producers, and directors come up with to stick to such “cult of theater?...