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School of Public Health Stare Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition Walter C. Willett wrote in an e-mail that the adverse metabolic effects of trans fats translate into tens of thousands of premature deaths from heart disease in the United States each year. He also said that trans fats are likely the cause of 40 percent of Type 2 Diabetes in the country. In Europe, most food companies have eliminated trans fats from their products, and Denmark has completely banned the sale of products containing trans fats, according to Willett...
SMOKIN' Italian researchers say Leonardo used a blurring technique called sfumato, employing microscopic dots to create the smoky shadows near her eyes and mouth that make her stare so enigmatic...
...lecture—which are huge annoyances in themselves, though they do make actually attending classes (which aren't taped, unlike almost every other introductory science class) an incentive. But if you ask to delve into the material beyond the lectures, be prepared to be met by a wooden stare and an awkward silence...
...terms, most of this works. Cage is especially fine. He tamps down his familiar eccentricities, and lends McLoughlin a laser stare of dread as he lies in his metal cage he thinks has become his coffin. After he's rescued and brought out on a stretcher, McLoughlin's gesture of touching the hand of each helper and saying "Thank you" has a heart-touching simplicity and nobility...
It’s hard to be a wine aficionado in college. Whenever I stare into a plastic cup full of God-knows-what at a Harvard party, I always think of that scene from Evelyn Waugh’s “Brideshead Revisited” where an intoxicated Oxford student vomits on another, and one of the drunkard’s friends explains to the vomitee: “The wines were too various….It was neither the quality nor the quantity that was at fault. It was mixture...