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Recipe courtesy of Chef William "Russ" Cunningham of Charlotte's Cantina...
...what explains the discrepancies between the results of SELECT and previous studies? For one thing, says Dr. William Nelson, director of the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, the participants of the Finnish study were cigarette smokers, and may have suffered more oxidative damage in their cells than the average person. If smoking had caused excessive damage to their cells, then they would be more likely to benefit from any antioxidant effects provided by the vitamin supplements. In other words, perhaps people with lower levels of the vitamin in their blood to start - whether...
...recommended that President-elect Barack Obama create a dedicated interagency group that would respond to genocide by analyzing emerging threats and coordinating action with other nations. The panel, which also includes former U.S. Central Command chief Anthony Zinni, former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle and former Secretary of Defense William Cohen, recommended that the U.S. government invest $250 million in new funds for prevention and response...
...over since Partition in 1947. Estimates differ, but somewhere near half a million people may have died in massacres and pogroms in the year following the division of Pakistan and India. Whole communities of Sikhs, Hindus, and Muslims were slaughtered, and the streets of Delhi ran with blood, as William Dalrymple writes in his history of the city, “City of Djinns.” In 1984, when Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards after ordering a raid on the religion’s holiest shrine to evict the militants holing up there, the citizens...
...late William F. Buckley, Jr., himself a graduate of Yale, once famously remarked that he would prefer a government of the first 400 names in the Boston phone book to that of the Harvard faculty. Ancient collegiate rivalries aside, Buckley’s sentiment abides...