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...Halfway around the world, a study of Bangladeshi children demonstrated the life-saving health benefits of minimal levels of this essential mineral. In a yearlong study of 1,621 children ages 2 months to 1 year, zinc supplements either prevented or lessened symptoms of pneumonia and diarrhea--conditions that kill millions of children each year in the developing world. Compared with the placebo group, children who took a weekly 70-mg dose of zinc had an 85% reduced risk of death...
...screams a gunner as he spots al-Qaeda fighters dart in front of him. "Just kill people to the north," a sergeant bellows. "Light him up," cries another soldier as a gunman approaches. On Nov. 17, even as Representative John Murtha was stirring debate on Capitol Hill by calling for an immediate redeployment of U.S. troops, the young soldiers of Blue Platoon were amid a citywide battle that revealed just how hard it will be to pull U.S. troops out soon...
...spectacular at times,” Donato said. BELLS AND WHISTLES Both Harvard and Clarkson were assessed eight minors for 16 minutes Friday, but Saturday against St. Lawrence, the Crimson took 12 penalties for 24 minutes. In the middle of the second period alone, Harvard’s penalty kill skated all but one second of a 5:37 stretch, and 2:24 of it saw the Saints hold a 5-on-3 advantage. And later, as the frame wound down, St. Lawrence got another 16 seconds of 5-on-3 sandwiched between a Charlie Johnson holding call...
...play and 5:36 of the total St. Lawrence power play with just one second of even strength in the middle. The Saints failed to score, thanks in large part to Tobe in net and a handful of well timed blocks by Harvard’s penalty kill...
...family (her grandmother, a merchant's concubine in prerevolutionary Shanghai, committed suicide in front of Tan's mother). By 2000, her anxiety had become debilitating. "On the street I was afraid I'd be stabbed in the back," she recalls. "I thought somebody would break into my house and kill me there. I couldn't write. I couldn't walk. I had severe numbness in my feet, to the point where I was looking into getting a motorized wheelchair." Her affliction turned out to be Lyme disease, which she caught in the U.S., probably from an insect bite, though...