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...orange juice prevent ulcers? In a study of 7,000 Americans, researchers found that the lower the level of vitamin C in a person's blood, the more likely that he or she will be infected by the bacteria Helicobacter pylori, which is linked to ulcers and stomach cancer. The researchers do not yet know whether a low vitamin level is the cause or the effect of the H. pylori infection. But even if it is the latter, the study's authors believe it prudent for people who test positive for the bug to increase their vitamin C intake...
...DIED. WANG MINGCHENG, 49, defendant in China's first known euthanasia case, who was acquitted of murder charges after he convinced a doctor to give his dying mother a lethal injection in 1986; in Shaanxi province. Wang, who was diagnosed with stomach cancer in 2000, also sought euthanasia for himself, but his hospital denied his request...
Director Benny Chan has packed Heroic Duo with sophisticated weaponry, high-speed car chases and dizzying stunts, including one stomach-quivering sequence in which a character traverses two skyscrapers using a wobbly, metal stepladder. Noticeably absent are high-wire kung fu acrobatics; Chan, who first gained notoriety with kung fu fantasy Magic Crane, apparently no longer wants anything to do with Chinamen in robes?unless they're behind the wheel of a Ferrari Testarossa...
...sand and masochism - those wonderful weeks of getting burnt, stung by jellyfish (and the local doctor who treats you), losing your watch while making sandcastles with the kids, eating a prawn that has gone off and having to be rescued by a lifeguard with an obscenely flat stomach. Increasingly drawing people from such coastal delights are agritourism, where you pay to smell what cows do to grass, and "edge" trips, where you are charged big bucks to risk your life scaling or jumping off something. There's also the wellness jaunt, where you try to buy back misspent youth...
Ironically, it was a belly dancing show that made me first realize Cairo was not the ethereal city of my “Arabian Nights” dreams. I sat in intense anticipation for the belly dancer, who in my mind would be buxom, with stomach flowing in rolls and waves, and with enough glitter on her costume to make me flinch. What emerged instead, after two hours of an Egyptian cover band, was a very thin woman. Belly dancers are not supposed to be very thin. Here was a woman with fake breasts, no waist to speak...