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SKILL Seeking pollen, they attract various airborne chemicals and take them back to the hive...
...health organizations. The American Cancer, Dietetic and Heart associations, together with the American Academy of Pediatrics and the National Institutes of Health, have joined forces to endorse a common eating plan. The Unified Dietary Guidelines break no new ground, but they bring together under one program the various daily recommendations of each organization: For example, the guidelines propose that a person consume no more than 30 percent of calories from all types of fat (and no more than 10 percent from saturated fat), that cholesterol be limited to no more than 300 milligrams, and that 55 percent of calories come...
Your short item on B-vitamin folate and its connection to various medical conditions [HEALTH, May 24] included a conclusion from the New England Journal of Medicine that folate deficiency in the U.S. has "virtually disappeared." That is not only wrong but also poses a very real threat to millions of women of childbearing...
This is an anthology film, tracing the history of the eponymous instrument from its creation in the 17th century to its predictable fate as--what else?--the centerpiece of frantic bidding in an auction in our own time. The violin is, at various points, owned by a monastery, a child prodigy and a victim of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. These stories, alas, are utterly predictable. Still, Samuel L. Jackson breaks through the crust of cliches as an expert called in to verify the instrument's provenance, and violinist Joshua Bell plays and Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts John Corigliano's score...
...described herself as being too selfish and ambitious to have children. Yet she surrendered all to him--of her own volition. In various passages from her autobiography, Hepburn, the daughter of a suffragist and birth-control crusader, sounds disconcertingly unliberated: "We passed 27 years together in what was to me absolute bliss. It is called love. I could never have left him. I wanted to protect him. I struggled to change all the qualities I felt he didn't like. I was his." And then there is this startling admission: "I have no idea how Spence felt about...