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...into the dietary habits of 515 subjects who ranged in age from two to 20 years-old. Researchers gathered data between 1997 and 2005. According to Professor of Medicine David C. Christiani, the chemical culprit is most likely the nitrites added during the curing and smoking process. These chemicals transform into N-nitroso compounds—which are known carcinogens—in the acidic stomach. “These are some very active compounds in your body,” said Christiani. “Have you ever heard of the hot-dog headache? That’s what...
...take a vocal and instantly nudge it onto the proper note or move it to the correct pitch. It's like Photoshop for the human voice. Auto-Tune doesn't make it possible for just anyone to sing like a pro, but used as its creator intended, it can transform a wavering performance into something technically flawless. "Right now, if you listen to pop, everything is in perfect pitch, perfect time and perfect tune," says producer Rick Rubin. "That's how ubiquitous Auto-Tune is." (Download TIME's Auto-Tune Podcast from iTunes...
...group of some 60 activists met in New York City to discuss how best to defend Lincoln's dying legacy. They called themselves the National Negro Committee, later changing their name to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Since then, the NAACP has worked tirelessly to transform American race relations. In 1915 it protested the blockbuster silent film Birth of a Nation, which glorified the Ku Klux Klan and was enthusiastically screened at the White House by Woodrow Wilson. In 1930 its members blocked the Supreme Court nomination of a segregationist judge, and nearly 25 years later...
...living a constantly interrupted dream. ("Did I fall asleep?" they ask after each treatment.) But Dushku, memorable as the bad-girl Faith in Buffy, isn't much of a chameleon. She's passably callow as Caroline and nicely eerie as the doll-like "blank" Echo, but she doesn't transform with each personality, la Toni Collette in United States of Tara...
...move that bodes ill for University plans to transform its new Allston campus into a mecca for stem cell research, Harvard provost Steven E. Hyman has asked faculty to consider the possibility of housing the department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology in existing University facilities in Cambridge...