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...wort is good for rheumatism and chamomile cures insomnia because Grandma said it was just so. But scientific evidence is emerging that Asia's favorite leafy tonic, green tea, may in fact be everything Granny said it was. A joint research team from the University of Murcia in Spain and the John Innes Centre in England has found that green tea is loaded with a compound, epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), that has demonstrable cancer-fighting properties...
...That's a major reversal for the Chancellor, who's spent the past year accusing new E.U. members from Central and Eastern Europe, where low corporate rates are the rule, of "tax dumping." The cut will make Germany's effective tax rate lower than those of France, Italy and Spain, but still higher than rates in most of the 10 new E.U. countries. And it seems likely to happen: Angela Merkel, leader of the opposition Christian Democratic Union (cdu), said her party would support the reduction as long as it involved no new borrowing. Business leaders were pleased, with...
...alike for everything going wrong," Rozès explains. "Most people are basing how they'll vote on anything but the constitution itself." That's grim news for the yes side, which includes almost every major figure on both the right and left of France's political mainstream. After Spain approved the constitution last month, the vote by traditionally pro-Europe France was intended to keep up the momentum before a Dutch referendum in June that's expected to be close. If the constitution - which establishes voting rights and procedures among nations, and creates an E.U. president and foreign minister...
...opposite direction from the main entrance. They stopped at a road where the abductors must have boarded their automobile. That roadside spot was as far as any known person had definitely trailed the Lindbergh baby up to last week. But the search fanned out as far as Sweden, Spain, France, Austria, the Pacific Coast. During the search the case leaped dizzily into fantasy...
...Muslims themselves can effect the change necessary to remove these extremist elements from their religion—just as it took a people’s uprising in Lebanon to spur Syria’s nascent withdrawal. And as the representative of one million Muslims, the Islamic Commission of Spain has the clout to begin this much-needed purge...