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...starters, this is an old story. Indications that a touch of the grape may do the heart some good go back at least 30 years, although each new shot of positive evidence still gets lots of attention. Two weeks ago, a big study in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that a particular pattern of drinking--rather than the absolute amount or the type of alcohol consumed--seems to have the best health effects. The investigators concluded that men who consistently drink a small amount of beer, wine or spirits three or more days a week suffer fewer heart...
...suburbanite fortysomething in faded jeans, sneakers and frosted hair: "Can I touch you, Mario...
...militias that have carved Baghdad into fiefdoms, Saed Salah has little to fear from the authorities. The whole neighborhood knows who he is. Motorists are aware that his fighters man the makeshift checkpoints that dot the neighborhood. Even though he has attacked U.S. troops countless times, no one will touch him. If the G.I.s could find him, they would slap him straight into Abu Ghraib prison. But that's not likely to happen. The American military may occupy Iraq, Saed Salah says, and an Iraqi Prime Minister may be in power, but neither owns these streets...
...does Rao bring business-school Type A's in touch with their inner yogi? He draws on his knowledge of Indian spirituality but speaks to businesspeople in a language they understand, says Sreedhar Kona, who took the course at Columbia in 2004. Rao has a Ph.D. in marketing from Columbia and spent half a dozen years in that business, including working in a pivotal position on promotions for the movie The Exorcist. It was then that he asked himself the question he regularly poses to his classes: "Is this what you want your legacy...
...situation across southern Arizona has spun so far out of control that many on the border believe a day of reckoning is fast approaching, when an incident--an accidental shooting, multiple auto fatalities, a confrontation between drug and people smugglers--will touch off a higher level of violence. And the nightmare scenario: some resident frustrated by the Federal Government's refusal to halt the onslaught will begin shooting the border crossers on his or her property. As a rancher summed up the situation: "If the law can't protect you, what do you do?" Everyone, it seems, is armed, including...