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Kudos on the article about people's gullibility when it comes to detoxing. Many years ago I asked my physician whether illnesses are due at least 90% to what we eat; he nodded approvingly. These last 30 years I have eaten very sparingly, adhering to a strict Mediterranean regimen: plenty of fruit and vegetables and one glass of red wine, no red meat but lots of beans as a substitute. With a BMI of 20, I feel very healthy. Will people ever learn that gluttony and junk food are bad? Ettore Ulivelli, MILAN, ITALY...
...lead the world in green building, but it is expert in certain materials. Take VKR, founded during World War II as a window manufacturer. Through its subsidiaries the firm now markets efficient skylights and vertical windows, and in recent years has shifted into rooftop solar heating. Government policies and strict regulations have helped here too. "The mega-trend today is renewable energy and energy efficiency, and we're improving them both," says Leif Jensen...
...fund was set up without strict parameters as to how the money is to be spent, administrators at the Law School said, due to the changing nature of international law and the school’s global efforts...
...killed in a bus accident in Peru while researching for Let’s Go. Since then, the company has banned night travel and given mandatory self-defense training to all researchers before they go out on the road. The company also maintains a strict “all hours” contact policy, under which a designated member of staff at headquarters mans an emergency cell phone 24/7. As an added measure, the staffer is barred from drinking alcohol and riding the T during their shift. Let’s Go has also had issues with publishing firms. After...
While Hong Kong maintains strict rules against money laundering, the Mugabes, it appears, have established themselves here with little trouble. Bona Mugabe, the dictator's 20-year-old daughter, is allegedly enrolled at Hong Kong's City University. (Mugabe's relatives have been barred entry at schools in the West and Australia.) The Zimbabwe National Students Union, based in Harare, issued a petition on Feb. 15 demanding Bona's deportation back to Zimbabwe, so that she could resume her studies alongside her people. "The state of our education system is so deplorable," reads their statement, "that [Robert Mugabe] has seen...