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...Still, the results of these studies, which were sponsored by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, cannot be ignored, or easily dismissed. This is by far the largest, most scientifically rigorous attempt ever to test a low-fat diet-defined as 20% or less of total calories coming from fat. Researchers randomly divided the participants into two groups, worked hard to get one group to cut its fat intake and then compared the results for each of them for the next several years...
...places, like England, Hong Kong and New Zealand, are improving faster, and some, like Singapore and Japan, are miles ahead. Even eighth-graders in much poorer countries like Estonia and Hungary outperformed their U.S. peers, who came in ninth of the 44 nations on the science portion of the test...
...raise enough money to do that. In my 23 years of staff work in the U.S. House of Representatives, I never knew of a member who could be bought. But there were always a few around who could be rented for a time. There was a simple test in the offices where I worked: if something offered to us could also be given to the average person-a pencil, calendar, ballpoint pen-we could accept it. If something was offered to us because we worked in Congress, we turned it down. Football tickets, meals in expensive restaurants or golf outings...
...this upcoming weekend is really big.” The Crimson dropped only one individual match in the first half of its season before facing the Bantams, going 4-0 against Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell, and Williams. But the second half of the season, always more challenging, will test the 2005-06 squad’s mettle. The Crimson hosts No. 4 Penn and No. 5 Princeton at home next weekend, both of whom pose a perennial challenge to its Ivy rival. Afterwards looms the Yale game, unequivocally the biggest test before the Howe Cup tournament. And with Saturday?...
...buddies and try to get out of the Guard--not to leave the military but to join the Army. He wants to go back to Iraq, never mind the missing leg. After all, with its high-tech Renegade foot, his new one has made him faster and funnier. Why test fate a second time? Because he loves the military, loves guns and loved his job as a scout. "I'm going back to be a trigger puller, not a bullet catcher," he says, reasoning that the odds of being blown up twice are pretty low. His mom, Rhetta Drennan...