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...blood pressure and a substantial reduction in cholesterol levels after four weeks on a celery diet. The rodents were injected with a tiny amount of celery extract a day; a 150-lb. human would have to gobble four large stalks for the same proportionate intake. Stalks, however, unlike extract, contain lots of undesirable salt. The cardio-friendly ingredient in celery is a compound called phthalide that may also exert a mild sedative effect on humans...
...could a nation that is geographically and culturally closer to Paris than to Mecca or Tehran come to such a pass? For years the government managed to contain the fundamentalists by building mosques and passing laws to placate them, then arresting leaders who became too powerful. But after political parties were legalized two years ago, the Islamic Salvation Front won an overwhelming majority in the June 1990 municipal elections, the first multiparty vote since Algeria gained independence from France in 1962. Then the gulf war sparked a fresh burst of anti-Western sentiment. If the fundamentalists ever come to power...
...strains minimizes this damage. But more and more of the world's basic crops now share genetic material. Most high-yielding wheats and rices derive their short, sturdy stature from just a few ancestors. While these genes may be tough, the genes transferred with them may contain a hidden vulnerability that could allow pests to lay waste to huge areas. Observes plant breeder Garrison Wilkes of the University of Massachusetts at Boston: "Imagine what a burglar could do if he got past the front door of a building and found that all the apartments shared the same...
...send your kid to whatever school you wanted. At this point, class, poverty and isolation are far more difficult variables for blacks than racism. That does not mean racism is gone; I think you'll meet it wherever you go. But it does not have the power to contain your life that it used to have...
When his phone rings these days, the message is likely to contain a threat, sometimes from Israeli fanatics, sometimes from Palestinian hard-liners who reject peace talks. "You are talking to a dead man," al-Husseini told Secretary of State James Baker last week. "Israeli extremists or Arab radicals will get to me. I want something in my hand so the peace process can continue...