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...heard a lot about the health benefits of tea, especially green tea. It is high in polyphenols--compounds with strong antioxidant activity that in test-tube and animal models show anticancer and heart-protective effects. Good clinical studies are few, however, and although I and other physicians tell our patients to drink green tea, there hasn't been any definitive proof of the value of that advice...
Population studies like those help us form hypotheses about relationships between dietary habits and long-term health. We still have to test our suppositions in controlled conditions and measure the effects of coffee and tea on various systems of the body...
...supposed noise from the Big Bang could just be noise from everyday creation and destruction occurring in the universe. Unfortunately, a lot of science and religion has evolved into fantasies that provide grandiose explanations for questions that may never be answered. Richard Thomas Rowlett, Texas, U.S. The Toughness Test "The end of invincibility" [Sept. 4] illustrated the difficulty of achieving peace in the Middle East. Once again a leader has failed the toughness test, and his people are ready to make him pay a political price. But Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert cannot destroy Hizballah any more than President George...
...quickly this happened, but I am not surprised at the snowball effect,” said a college adviser at The Key School in Annapolis, Md., Paul M. Stoneham.Cuseo, of Harvard-Westlake, said “it’s interesting that [Princeton] didn’t wait to test the waters and see what other people would do.” Early decision programs increase a school’s yield—the percentage of admitted applicants who choose to enroll there. Yield is often used as a barometer of a school’s attractiveness. Cuseo said...
...this week has put it all to a test. Ecumenism, open forums, and the coexistence of faith and reason have been jeopardized by violence from leading Muslims, just as if the Danish cartoons had been reprinted. And the irony of it all matters little when compared to its consequences...