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...what explains the discrepancies between the results of SELECT and previous studies? For one thing, says Dr. William Nelson, director of the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, the participants of the Finnish study were cigarette smokers, and may have suffered more oxidative damage in their cells than the average person. If smoking had caused excessive damage to their cells, then they would be more likely to benefit from any antioxidant effects provided by the vitamin supplements. In other words, perhaps people with lower levels of the vitamin in their blood to start - whether...
...climate-change negotiations can be a depressing experience - maximum rhetoric expended on minimum accomplishment. In Poznan the atmosphere seems even bleaker. For one thing, economic catastrophe has made it harder for leaders to justify cutting carbon. A recent study by the Government Accounting Office (GAO), the independent investigative arm of Congress, sharply criticized the Clean Development Mechanism, the U.N. body that oversees the Kyoto Protocol's carbon-trading practices. The GAO found that carbon offsets - whereby a company in a rich nation pays for a carbon-reducing project elsewhere in lieu of cutting emissions itself - were at best a "temporary...
...your role as a teacher?JK: I think the teacher is a kind of servant, the best kind of servant. I’m looking to be of service, to teach, but sometimes up it comes—a brilliant writer. It’s a thrilling thing to see a young person coming up in this world of writing that is so ancient. It’s fantastic. It just makes me so excited to see. I love young people. 4. FM: How did your love for writing start?JK: People who knew me when I was a child...
...December that will address the link between art and the science of cooking. “It is important that science is not treated in a disrespectful way,” he said, of its use in culinary endeavors. “Science is a serious thing, and you don’t treat it like a show.” Adrià expressed hope that he would be able to work with Harvard’s scientists to write a book about the relationship between food and science. Food science, Adrià joked is the product...
...Crimson who own the property and the building, also objected. “I worked with [David] over the years in a variety of matters,” said Cronin, a former Crimson president. “I can assure the City Council, truly, that the last thing in the world David Halberstam would have wanted is to have a street named after him.” Glenn said a renaming of Plympton St. would detract from the street’s sentimental value to generations of Crimson editors and also lead to material costs and difficulties, and Bhayani questioned...