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That's a question researchers have long debated. Until now, the evidence has been mixed: Some studies have suggested that exclusive, prolonged breast-feeding helps stave off asthma and allergies later in life; other studies have shown no protection, or even an increased risk. But most of the available data has come from observational studies. The new BMJ paper, in contrast, was a large, long-term randomized trial that involved more than 17,000 breast-feeding women and babies, 13,889 of whom were tracked until age 6 1/2. Researchers recruited the moms in maternity hospitals and clinics in Belarus...
...crusade against smoking is succeeding through an unholy alliance of the joyless left and the pious right, Christians wary of vice and anemic secularists terrified of their own extinction. Their campaign to stave off death at all costs does not stop at smoking, which, after all, only kills the smoker. Sex, alcohol, and food are all equally suspect. Thus we see efforts to implement “trans-fat” bans, repressive drinking-age laws, and masturbation advocacy programs such as the Masturbate-a-thon in Clerkenwell, London in 2006 or books such as Walter O Bocking?...
...with that "two-million-euro-a-day" figure (which equals about $2.7 million a day) still buzzing in the ears of government officials, investors and ordinary Italians, Alitalia is making its next move to stave off collapse. On Sep. 7, Alitalia's board is expected to finalize the details of what it is billing as a "survival/transition" plan for 2008-2010. Cynics will liken it to the allotment of a few fire extinguishers for the Hindenburg. Union officials have said that the plan calls for the company to try raise up to 1.5 billion euros in capital, cut some...
...companies that turn out easily replicable products from light fixtures and heavy tools to sofas and office chairs - has proved particularly vulnerable to Chinese competition, though Italians hope that their luxury consumer brands, valued for their European cachet and design, can attract China's burgeoning shopping class, and help stave off a looming trade-imbalance crisis...
...when in doubt Rowling tends to err on the side of quashing ambiguity, both telling and showing when one would probably do. So we have known for a while that Voldemort cannot love, that he has been spiritually ruined by his parents' deaths, and he will kill anyone to stave off his own death. Harry, though also an orphan, has found the courage to love. "Do not pity the dead, Harry," a wise man tells Harry in Deathly Hallows. "Pity the living, and, above all, those who live without love." Characterologically speaking, the greatest question that remains in Hallows might...