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...study, over 8,000 women at high risk of heart disease were randomly assigned different combinations of vitamin C, vitamin E, and beta carotene for over nine years—the first large-scale randomized clinical trial of these vitamins, Manson said...
...authors praise the appearance of dominant, creative alpha 2.0 (alpha beta?) men in the office but warn of the dangerous excesses attached to the personality type: "The other half consists of a package of not-so-positive symptoms that leads to everything from minor business problems to full-fledged organizational catastrophes and personal disasters." The last years of Disney CEO Michael Eisner's reign is cited as a perfect example of a misguided alpha tenure disintegrating into "paranoia, backbiting and civil war." The authors have great faith, though, in alpha consciousness raising: "Alpha males who face up to their risks...
Wiki Spawns Rival New site aims for more accuracy Citizendium, a new Wikipedia-like online encyclopedia, has debuted in limited beta testing. Anyone can write an entry (apply at citizendium.org) but editing is limited to chosen experts...
...beta form, the addictive, low-tech time waster was introduced just last month and has quickly amassed a worldwide cult following. Created by a programmer with the screen name ~fsk who claims to be from the small European country of Slovenia, the digital amusement first showed up Sept. 23 on deviantART, an online community of artists, designers, photographers and art lovers . "This is a project I did for illustration class," states ~fsk in a brief intro. "It's not a game, it's a toy... there are no goals to achieve and there is no score...
Today, Google Book Search project is still in beta testing, but already 10,000 public domain books are indexed and available in search results; many full texts are available via PDF download. These are small steps on the way to the eventual goal of creating a comprehensive virtual catalog of all books in all languages. Verba had that ambition when he served as director of HUL, and we hope that his dream will be realized in his golden years, after a monumental tenure as an advocate and pacesetter for academia...