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Still, some important issues haven't yet been addressed. While omega-3s do indeed lower the level of triglycerides in the blood, they have a tendency to raise the level of LDL, or "bad cholesterol." No one knows if that's a healthy trade-off or for whom. Pregnant women...
TIME: When you left Mexico in 1995 after your hunger strike, was there any trade-off between you and Zedillo's government? SALINAS: I didn't ask for any special treatment The hunger strike was necessary because the nomenklatura was pushing for a judicial order to arrest me. They were...
Ten-to-1, you think Australians are rather like Americans, and that we want to be more so. Dead wrong. No idealism attended the birth of Anglo-Australia. White colonization in America began as a religious venture; the Puritans thought they were, literally, creating God's country. Australia, by contrast...
The West's belief is that globalization will fundamentally change China and minimize the problems of the country's inclusion in the world system. This is the American myth of the 1990s. We Americans, for example, see a rigid trade-off between economic success in the age of globalization and...
"Basically, Harvard offered the best mix of academics and athletics," Prasse-Freeman says. "Sure, there is definitely a trade-off to turning down money from another school, but coming to Harvard is a much longer-term investment."