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...best woman distance swimmer the world has ever seen is lean and serene these days, digging cheerfully just now into her between-workouts morning diet supplement of--yes, cholesterol enthusiasts--hash-brown potatoes. And a fried egg, over easy. And a couple of griddle cakes, each the size of a catcher's mitt. All of which will jiggle around the middle of her breakfast companion, who's having the same. But in the white-hot furnace that drives Janet Evans, it will burn to ash well before her three hours of afternoon tank time are finished and her daily weight...
...Airport fares supplement the runs you do around the city," said taxi driver James P. Henry. "It really helps you with expenses...
...currently meeting the very real needs of the countless women whose academic and extracurricular lives are not centered in Agassiz House. We need strong women in our Harvard classrooms and our Harvard activities to inspire us--not to replace the men who fill that capacity now, but to supplement them. We need to feel that the whole campus is a safe, comfortable place...
There's a catch, however. The benefit applied only to women who got their vitamins the old-fashioned way, in foods like nuts, margarine and vegetable oil. Vitamin-supplement takers, by contrast, seemed to get heart disease at pretty much the average rate. This phenomenon isn't limited to vitamin E. Two major studies released earlier this year--and reconfirmed in last week's New England Journal--showed that beta-carotene pills don't promote good health the way beta-carotene-rich foods (like carrots) do. Why should the same nutrient work when in food and not when in pills...
...document distributed today, and that includes the oral supplement today, is not, I gather, a 'report' as cited in the charge and I hope it will not be entered in the record as such," Kuhn said...