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...study's authors, led by Dr. Lisa L. Strate, a gastroenterologist at the University of Washington, note that despite a lack of firm evidence, the conventional dietetic wisdom has prevailed among many physicians. In a recent survey as many of 47% of colorectal surgeons agreed that their patients should avoid nuts and popcorn. But Strate says the notion that these "abrasive foods" exacerbate diverticulosis is simply "an evolved theory" founded on a belief that nuts and seeds can lodge in the diverticula, the pouches or bulges that form in weak parts of the colon wall, and give the disease...
...While Harvard has continued to participate in the rankings and University officials have not been as vocal as critics like Casper, Harvard does not fill out the subjective reputation survey, as Casper urged...
...This year, the overall response rate to the peer survey was just 46 percent, though it was a bit higher—56 percent—in the "national universities" group of which Harvard is a part, according to Morse...
There are, not surprisingly, still debates among Democrats over details and priorities: a Pew Research survey released last week found Democratic voters split over issues like trade and whether to drill for oil. The crop of more conservative candidates running this election cycle will, if elected, increase the numbers and clout of Blue Dog Democrats in Congress, who don't always see eye to eye with the party's congressional leadership. And Obama's generally restrained style and pragmatic, postpartisan approach to politics have not provided an outlet for the frustration and rage that has developed in some pockets...
...time. "As long as you don't express politically incorrect messages, from the government's point of view these kinds of artists are a very positive phenomenon," says Nimrod Baranovitch, a professor at the University of Haifa in Israel and the author of China's New Voices, an authoritative survey of Chinese popular music from 1978 to 1997. "They help the Chinese state show that China is multiethnic and that China does not oppress minority cultures...