Word: beta
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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After nearly a decade of intense study, researchers at Harvard Medical School are beginning to understand how beta carotene, the simple chemical found in carrots, apricots and other vegetables, may hold the potential to stave off fatal diseases in humans...
Many--but not all--of those scientists examining beta carotene have joined together on the Physicians' Health Study, a massive project involving as subjects 22,071 male physicians between 40 and 84 years old. The study was designed to test the effect of aspirin on heart disease and beta carotene on cancer...
Matsushita (1989 revenues: $44 billion) commands an array of brands, like Panasonic, Pioneer, Technics, Quasar and JVC. The company makes products ranging from stereos to refrigerators to bicycles to semiconductors. It is twice Sony's size, and developed the VHS videocassette format, which prevailed over Sony's Beta in a bloody competitive battle...
...variety of compounds that could be useful for people who, because of their heredity or life-style, are known to be highly susceptible to particular kinds of malignancy. About 20 different cancer-prevention studies are under way around the world, examining the potential benefits of such compounds as beta carotene and vitamin...
...cleanup crew that followed in Souter's wake to glean cloakroom prattle heard him compared to Calvin Coolidge and called a "mousy little guy." Bush can live with that. Souter is a Harvard-Phi Beta Kappa-Rhodes scholar mouse...