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...some kind of general immune-system booster, the effect can't be that strong: there are millions of tea drinkers in China , and yet diseases like sars manage to take hold and spread. Finally, a word about the different types of tea. Green tea has more of the chemically simpler antioxidants called catechins, whereas black tea contains more complex antioxidants called theaflavins and thearubigins. Oolong tea is a bit of a mix of the other two. Doctors don't know whether one type of tea is better for some conditions than others. It's possible that they all take...
...face, when not mid-bleat, opens widely and painfully, teetering a foot away from the microphone. This exertion that Darnielle puts into his songs lends credence to his tortured tales of desperation and corrupted human relationships as deftly as to his simpler quirky love songs...
This concept is so intriguing because it suggests a new and possibly much simpler way of warding off disease. Instead of different treatments for, say, heart disease, Alzheimer's and colon cancer, there might be a single, inflammation-reducing remedy that would prevent all three...
Easy credit has made it simpler for Chinese firms to pile into the car industry. A few years ago, as Chinese consumers began amassing enough disposable income to buy TVs, appliances and consumer electronics, companies crowded into those fields, driving down prices and profit margins until only a few of the largest now compete. Today one of the new hot zones is autos; sales are accelerating, and margins can be fat. "It's too hard to make money from washing machines now," complains Zhao Yong, a director of Guangdong-based Midea, an appliance maker that plans...
Have you gone wireless? Should you? I haven't, despite my moment of digital embarrassment. Do I really need to look up something on the Internet Movie Database from my bed? Here's an even simpler question, worth addressing in this first column: What is technology? A handy definition goes like this: if something breaks or crashes, it's technology; if you don't notice it, it's no longer technology. Consider the car. Cars were probably a new technology until the 1950s, when they became reliable enough not to fall apart at high speeds. Microsoft Windows is clearly technology...