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Last February the FDA rejected as premature applications by vitamin makers to promote folic acid as a means of preventing neural-tube birth defects, antioxidants as a hedge against cancer, and zinc as a booster of aging immune systems. Both federal and state regulatory agencies have been cracking down on nutrient health claims. The FDA says it will hold label claims to standards similar to those applied to drugs. Advises Dr. Walter Willett of the Harvard School of Public Health: "At this time I say don't take megadoses, but I'm not ruling out that in two or three...
...picking roommates for the next three years is great practice for prioritizing the qualities you'd want in future housemates. Do you like people who squeeze the Aim tube from the bottom? Do you hate it when the toilet paper is rolled over instead of under? It's never too early to pick that perfect rooming group...
...cure CF (Since the cells that line the lungs are shed periodically, this aerosol gene therapy will probably have to be repeated every two or three months.) While Crystal has yet to try the therapy in humans, he is supremely optimistic: "We now know it works in the test tube and in animals. I can guarantee that we can correct the defective protein in humans...
...Burns makes his subject come alive by focusing on three crucial people. First is Lee DeForest, who patented the key invention that spawned the radio age -- the three-element vacuum tube -- but emerges as something of a self- promoter and con man. Edwin Howard Armstrong, who made important refinements in De Forest's invention and battled him endlessly in the patent courts, is the film's tragic hero: a bullheaded visionary defeated by people smarter and more ruthless than he. David Sarnoff, the founder of NBC, is one of those ruthless people ("I don't get ulcers; I give them...
...homebound and party-shy, interactive TV may shut down your social life altogether. Last week the Federal Communications Commission paved the way for the proliferation of a technology that permits TV owners to bank, pay bills and order everything from Chinese food to tennis shoes through the boob tube. A remote-control device accesses menu screens offering up the various services...