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...school's walls, is at odds with the beliefs and practices of the roughly 200 million Muslims in Indonesia. Since Arabic traders began to spread Islam across the archipelago about 700 years ago, the religion has assumed many forms. Indonesia has fiery Wahhabi evangelists and Jakarta sophisticates who drink cocktails during Ramadan. The vast majority of Indonesian Muslims fall somewhere in between, practicing a form of the religion distinguished by its "peacefulness and tolerance," says Masdar Mas'udi, an influential progressive cleric based in Jakarta. That tolerance includes an acceptance of widely differing interpretations of what it means...
...most notably in the New England Centenarian Study, led by Dr. Thomas Perls, a geriatrician at Boston University, and in a major study under way at the National Institute on Aging. While the very old are happy to offer homespun explanations for their longevity--"I never took a drink"; "I drank a shot of whiskey every day"--experts are trying to unravel and understand the biological factors that allow some people to reach 100 while others drop off in their 70s or 80s. Researchers are particularly interested in determining which factors allow up to 30% of those who reach...
...year-old can be managed rather well. My little girl, thanks to her vigilant mother, does not watch television (except for approved videos) or eat fast food (except when with her aunt) or drink soda pop (ditto) or use foul language. She wears clean clothes and is fed fresh fruit and vegetables and that sort of thing. She is taken to kiddie concerts of classical music and to children's theater. At bedtime, with a little prompting, she bows her head and prays for people. Her teeth are clean and bright. Here I am, an old Democrat...
...never develop pancreatitis). When the illness is attributed to excessive alcohol consumption - the other most common cause - patients are told to practice total abstinence. It's not clear whether pancreatitis is preventable, but anyone with a family history would be well advised to avoid a high-fat diet and drink alcohol sparingly...
...Coca-Cola didn't have enough trouble with flat sales volume in the U.S., its fledgling online-music business in Europe is also losing fizz. In Britain back in January, the soft-drink company inaugurated Mycokemusic.com which has so far sold about 530,000 tunes for $1.46 to $1.84 a pop. But then in June, Apple launched iTunes in Britain, France and Germany, offering a wider selection of songs for less money ($1.44 each). In its first week in Europe alone, iTunes sold 800,000 tracks. Napster and the Sony Connect store also have competing music sites, and WalMart...