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...Lian may have started out as a hunch, but they may hold up. In 1996, Cohen and Tagliaferri, along with Dr. Debu Tripathy, then a breast cancer specialist at the University of California, San Francisco, co-founded the Complementary and Alternative Medicine program at the university's Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center. Over the next several years, the trio amassed enough evidence about the herb's anticancer properties - in lab tests of animals and breast-cancer cells, BZL101 caused apoptosis or cell death, according to Tagliaferri - to get a green light from the FDA to begin clinical trials...
...Bang, however. More recently, the U.K.'s decision to opt out of the euro in the early '90s stoked concern that Frankfurt - now home to the European Central Bank - would eclipse the City as Europe's leading financial center. Those concerns have gone the way of the franc, lira and deutsche mark. Thanks to London's ability to exploit its long-standing expertise in marketmaking and English's position as one of Europe's primary languages, there are now more euros traded for dollars, pounds and yen each day in London than in the euro-zone countries combined. The City...
...somewhere to shake your booty - regardless of how much money you have. On Thursday nights the Africa Bar does Afro-jazz for a tourist crowd; on Fridays Xima blasts out marrabenta, Mozambican fusion dance music, to the locals; le weekend is marked by live gigs at the Centro Cultural Francês and nearby Gil Vicente; while Coconuts blasts house music for those who were too young or busy warring to enjoy it the first time. And for a moment, when everybody's dancing, it feels like everybody's rich. africaguide.com
...RESERVE MERLOT CABERNETS: The Mudbrick winery's fruity blend of 50% Merlot, 30% Cabernet Franc and 20% Cabernet Sauvignon exhibits forest-berry notes, as well as aromas of oak and violet. The big finish on the palate will become even fuller with cellaring. www.mudbrick.co.nz...
...wave of popular support, the Socialists were expected to change everything for the better--fast. It was thus inevitable that the public would be disappointed. The government immediately undertook a bold expansionist economic program aimed at speeding up growth. The main result, though, was three devaluations of the franc. In 1982 the government switched to an austerity program that resulted in lower inflation but also a sharp increase in unemployment. While that policy soothed many furrowed brows, the Socialists were stuck with a reputation for erratic leadership...