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...diets remain pretty far-fetched. One example is the cabbage-soup diet, which promises that adherents will lose 10 lb. in a week by eating only cabbage soup. A more challenging competitor might be the lemonade diet, which requires dieters to subsist on a concoction of lemon juice, maple syrup, red pepper and hot water for as long as 10 days. While it may not rely on sound science, Siegal's cookie diet looks that much more appealing by comparison...
Hundreds of freshmen facing their first slew of exams, many of them locked in libraries for hours early in the day, now full to the brim with chocolate syrup, let loose. Despite the rather unexpected timing for a dance party, the floor was only empty for a few minutes before a few brave souls dared to take center stage...
Known for its creative drink menu, this swank bar at the Charles Hotel won’t disappoint. Seasonal favorites include “My Favorite Brunette,” a mix of buttered bourbon, Stoli Vanil, apple cider, simple syrup and fresh lemon, all for the ultimate reading period indulgence. Don’t have an exam until next week? While you’re at it, knock back a “Noir’s Boudoir,” a cocktail of Stoli Vanil, espresso, Godiva Mocha, Kahlua, and cream. Tastes like Christmas...
...governments--including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the U.S. Agency for International Development--have begun distributing zinc supplements to villagers in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. A number of other groups are working with governments in Africa to introduce zinc, which comes both in tablet form and as a syrup. In Mali, Save the Children U.S. used $680,000 from a 2007 American Idol charity concert to distribute zinc tablets to a handful of villages in the south of the country...
Scientists first hit on zinc's effectiveness in the early 1990s, when researchers from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health in Baltimore gave children in New Delhi a daily dose of syrup containing 20 mg of zinc. The rate of diarrhea dropped dramatically. Because ORT had already proved effective in the fight against diarrhea, though, aid organizations and researchers shifted their focus elsewhere--particularly to the disastrous spread of AIDS. The delay, the WHO's Fontaine says, cost the effort "at least 10 years...