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...empty, raw beauty, wilderness is the ultimate luxury. Jumping from Alaska's uninhabited wilds to the overcivilized luxury-goods business may seem like a stretch, but these days even denizens of the latter are talking about sustainability and how they can become more environmentally conscious. This special supplement to TIME is dedicated to the idea of green living in all aspects of design, including architecture, beauty products, furniture and fashion...
Just say no to drugs. Well, duh—if you’re a college athlete, that is. But how else does the NCAA kill the fun of Harvard’s D1 jocks? Steroids are off-limits, as is the once-popular diet supplement ephedrine. Pitfalls abound, however. According to Director of Compliance for Harvard’s Athletic Department, Nathan Fry, taking Tylenol Cold, which contains pseudoephedrine HCl, could lead to getting booted off the team. And forget March Madness fun— athletes can kiss their DHAs good-bye if they’re caught funding...
...First the news. A U.S. study of more than 36,000 healthy postmenopausal women determined that taking a standard calcium-and-vitamin-D supplement for seven years had no significant effect for most of them on preventing fractures in the spine, arms and hips, although it did lead to a 1% improvement in hip-bone density. Yet women who managed to take the vitamin-mineral combo at least four days out of five had a statistically significant 29% fewer hip fractures. And women over 60 suffered 21% fewer broken hips...
...woman who has been faithfully swallowing her daily calcium supplements in hopes of staving off osteoporosis and colorectal cancer can be forgiven for being confused by news last month that two major studies found that the pills provide little or no benefit against either condition. But as is so often the case with complicated health studies, it pays to dig beyond the headlines. First the news. A study of more than 36,000 healthy postmenopausal women determined that taking a standard calcium-and-vitamin-D supplement for seven years had no significant effect for most of them on preventing fractures...
...offices. How can we find useful news from unfamiliar sources, for example? What—whom—can we trust? Luckily, the Daily Me is evolving into what we might think of as a “Daily We” where recommendations from the wider community supplement our own selections in a collaborative filtering process.Websites such as Kuro5hin, Digg, Newsvine and Memeorandum give us a taste of what’s possible. At Digg (a tech-oriented site), for example, users flag stories as interesting, and members of the community vote; the story rises on the page with...