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...between the two groups in breast-cancer rates. "This is a potential problem that confounds the results of this particular trial," says Dr. Powel Brown, a professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and author of an editorial accompanying the study. "But it's not really ethical to tell postmenopausal women not to take vitamin D or calcium, because we know it protects against hip fractures." Future studies, he says, might compare standard doses of vitamin D with higher doses to determine whether the supplements have any effect on the cancer process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Vitamin D Protect Against Breast Cancer? | 11/12/2008 | See Source »

...body man requires, first and foremost, discretion, and Caleb refuses to give me more than the vaguest outline of what he does each day. He never says where Rove’s office is located or how many people work with him in total. When I ask, he does tell me that there is another college student in the office. But further information about his job, much less his boss, remains off-limits. All I know is that Caleb spends entire days in Rove’s company. They sit side by side in business class. When Caleb?...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett | Title: Kids Who Would Be King | 11/12/2008 | See Source »

...grave that held the remains of a diminutive "shaman" woman. Buried alongside the woman's small, huddled corpse were selected pieces of animal bone, a cowtail, an eagle wing, the foot of another human, and, most curiously, some fifty tortoise shells deliberately arranged around the woman's body - all tell-tale signs, experts say, of her lofty social status at the time. "This is something very special; it stands apart," says Leore Grosman, the project's lead archaeologist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 12,000-Year-Old Shaman Unearthed in Israel | 11/11/2008 | See Source »

...pair of handcuffs slapped on after days of exhausting travel. The actors play their nemeses with energy and zest, tearing across fields to get the migrants and insulting them in a colorful language: "Don't you speak Spanish. You are not in Mexico now, my friend. Tell me who the boss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Mexico, a Theme Park for Border Crossers | 11/11/2008 | See Source »

...draw it as if it were in the comic, and I did, and I got John Higgins to color it. So it' s like lost Watchmen pages! When we saw the rough screening of it in August this year they were almost begging me, the producers: please tell us if there's anything wrong, if there's anything you don't like, please, even if you think we've already filmed it, we can still change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watchmen's Dave Gibbons | 11/10/2008 | See Source »

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