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...that people with mental distress eat more junk food. Dearly held teen lore says that overindulging in chocolate and potato chips - which can make greasy fingers and, consequently, greasy faces - spawns pimples. This is mostly myth, according to the study's findings, although they offered a bit of support for the notion that diet plays a role. Girls in the study who consumed few vegetables tended to have more zits than girls who ate lots of greens. But diet was entirely irrelevant for boys...
...amazing job; he gathered friends and family from America and Burundi to rally for a public health effort that is by no means complete. They saw 28,000 different patients in their first year of operations, most of whom they treated for free. It has enormous support from the people in the area, has cleaned up water supplies, and tries to work on all the biggest health problems there. Now, it’s really turned its attention to women’s health, which along with clean water is probably the most important thing in developing countries...
...substantially more than the number who typically attend the club’s meetings, according to Garland, who termed the turnout “unprecedented.” Currently, Garland said, the group—which changed its name last semester from the Biseuxal, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance—has “anywhere between nine and 700 members,” depending who is counted: board members or people on the e-mail list. Attendees proposed different ways to involve more of Harvard’s queer community in the organization. While Garland and Chan also...
Leon Panetta knew it was going to be a hard sale, and so the CIA director dished out some serious hard sell as he tried to drum up support for the agency from Arab Americans in the most Arab city in the country. On Wednesday, the CIA invited 150 community leaders in Dearborn, Mich., to a lavish iftar, the traditional evening feast at the end of each day's fasting during the month of Ramadan. The CIA and the FBI have made strenuous efforts to sign up Arab Americans in recent years, but the suspicions and recriminations since 9/11 have...
...since then, the organization has struggled under the burden of the massive development project. It scrapped ambitious plans to redesign the cramped urban environment of Beirut's southern suburbs, where Hizballah support is strongest and which Israel bombed most heavily. Yet Waad is still well behind schedule to meet the 2010 deadline...