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Area 4 is Cambridge's poorest neighborhood and is the only one to contain a majority of non-white residents. Its residents have an average annual income of only $24,665--half that of some of Cambridge's wealthier areas. Unemployment stands at more than 10 percent, double the rate in most of the city's other neighborhoods...
...stick to the Recommended Daily Allowance, because there is little or no evidence, after all, that large doses of antioxidants prevent chronic disease. Predictably, the academy recommends the natural intake of antioxidants; instead of gulping down a few pills, everyone should concentrate on eating the fruits and vegetables that contain the critical nutrients. The recommendations aren't based solely on the fact that the human body absorbs vitamins more readily from food than from pills; it's also that supplements carry the risk of overdosing. And there's convincing evidence, the study continues, that very high doses...
...astrobiology. Right now, NASA is eyeing the dusty surface of Mars (where water once flowed) and the likely ocean under the ice of Jupiter's moon Europa as sites for primitive life-forms. One recent false alarm: the much trumpeted Martian meteorite found in Antarctica apparently does not contain convincing evidence of the existence of microorganisms on the Red Planet, as originally claimed...
Even apart from its problems in describing gravitation, however, the standard model in its present form has too many arbitrary features. Its equations contain too many constants of nature--such as the masses of the elementary particles and the strength of the fundamental units of electric charge--that are there for no other reason than that they seem to work. In writing these equations, physicists simply plugged in whatever values made the predictions of the theory agree with experimental results...
...might also argue that since our immense universe contains gazillions of galaxies filled with appropriate stars and planets, and since life did emerge on the one and only planet we really know, how can we deny that a sizable proportion of these other planets must also contain life? Yet a logical fallacy dooms this common argument because either alternative can be reconciled with the positive result that I must obtain for the only place I can sample--our Earth. For if all appropriate planets generate some form of life, then I should not be surprised that I have found living...