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...electronic equipment that doesn't quite work as advertised? Do you have complaints about your internet or online service provider that can't be worked out between you? If you've contacted the company and the issue is still unresolved, TIME magazine wants to help. TIME Digital, a supplement to TIME magazine, offers a free service of advice and mediation. Just e-mail us atombudsman@time.timeinc.comwith a detailed account of your story and we'll try to help resolve the problem. Because of limited resources, we may not be able to act in every case. Submissions may be edited and published...
Clearly, taking a simple chemical supplement is not the same as eating a vegetable. Scientist suspect there are other natural ingredients that work with the vitamins to promote health. But whether this news will put an end to the beta-carotene craze remains to be seen. The studies showed no harm in taking lower doses (3 mg) of the supplement, and the vitamin industry was quick to exploit that opening, suggesting that taking beta carotene might still be beneficial for nonsmokers. Yet even die-hard pill takers have to agree that the safest and cheapest form of prevention...
BETHESDA, MD: Turns out that beta carotene, a popular vitamin supplement that has been touted as a cancer and heart disease preventative, not only does no good, it may actually increase the risk of those diseases among people who smoke or work with asbestos. The National Cancer Institute, which sponsored two newly concluded studies reaching that result, found the findings so important that it called a press conference today to make the news public. NCI said a study involving smokers was halted 21 months early because the damage was so marked. "The message here is, basically, eat your fruits...
...EARNED INCOME-TAX CREDIT: The tax break that does most for the poor is the EITC, already in place. It gives the working poor a refund to cover payments for Social Security and some other taxes as well as to supplement wages. At the same time it proposes to give family tax credits to the middle class, the G.O.P., unlike Clinton, is proposing to cut the EITC for the poor...