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AIDS Goal Missed, but Effort by U.N. Branch Is Praised
By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, The New York Times, November 29, 2005
The World Health Organization's failure to meet a goal of treating three million H.I.V.-infected people by the end of this year owes to inadequate international coordination and lack of national leadership, a group of leading advocates for AIDS patients said yesterday.
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Rural Water Worries Persist After Chinese Chemical Spill
By JIM YARDLEY, The New York Times, November 27, 2005
SIFANTAI VILLAGE, China, Nov. 26 - Liu Shiying lifted the metal cover off the clay cistern in a corner of the bare kitchen and lowered a tin ladle into what remained of her water supply. Then she raised a scoop to her mouth.
"Do you think it smells?" she asked on Saturday, not taking a sip. "We're still drinking this. It is our only choice."
Ms. Liu lives in one of the dingy villages on the outskirts of Harbin, the provincial capital whose water supply had been shut off for four days to prevent contamination from a chemical spill that dumped a huge tide of pollution into the city's main water source, the Songhua River.
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Really? The Claim: Green Tea Helps Prevent Cancer
By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, The New York Times, November 29, 2005
THE FACTS It has been called an herbal panacea, able to help people who drink it regularly to lose weight, lower their cholesterol and generally safeguard their health.
But when it comes to one of the most-cited benefits of green tea, its ability to fight cancer, studies have found plenty of promise and not a lot of evidence.
The promise, researchers say, stems from the tea's polyphenols, which are powerful antioxidants that studies have shown can inhibit the growth of cancer cells in animals. But the evidence has been sparse when researchers have tried to determine if the findings carry over into humans. Results so far are mixed, at best.
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Findings: The Grapefruit League
By BENEDICT CAREY, The New York Times, November 29, 2005
Athletes on a hot streak often describe warps in space-time that even Einstein did not anticipate: basketball hoops appearing as wide as hula-hoops, tennis balls that seem to move in slow motion, golf outings in which the cups seem as easy to hit as open manholes. "When you're hitting the ball, it comes at you looking like a grapefruit; when you're not, it looks like a black-eyed pea," the Red Sox slugger George Scott once said.
The changes in perception are apparently real, if sometimes exaggerated.
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Vital Signs: Patterns: Research Finds Twins to Be the Slower Siblings
By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, The New York Times, November 29, 2005
Researchers in Scotland have found that twins have substantially lower I.Q.'s than their singleton siblings, based on a sampling of more than 10,000 Scottish children born in the 1950's.
The study, published online Nov. 18 in BMJ, the British Medical Journal, concludes that at least part of the explanation lies in the reduced prenatal growth and shorter gestation typical of twins.
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By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, The New York Times, November 29, 2005
The World Health Organization's failure to meet a goal of treating three million H.I.V.-infected people by the end of this year owes to inadequate international coordination and lack of national leadership, a group of leading advocates for AIDS patients said yesterday.
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Rural Water Worries Persist After Chinese Chemical Spill
By JIM YARDLEY, The New York Times, November 27, 2005
SIFANTAI VILLAGE, China, Nov. 26 - Liu Shiying lifted the metal cover off the clay cistern in a corner of the bare kitchen and lowered a tin ladle into what remained of her water supply. Then she raised a scoop to her mouth.
"Do you think it smells?" she asked on Saturday, not taking a sip. "We're still drinking this. It is our only choice."
Ms. Liu lives in one of the dingy villages on the outskirts of Harbin, the provincial capital whose water supply had been shut off for four days to prevent contamination from a chemical spill that dumped a huge tide of pollution into the city's main water source, the Songhua River.
( Read More )
Really? The Claim: Green Tea Helps Prevent Cancer
By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, The New York Times, November 29, 2005
THE FACTS It has been called an herbal panacea, able to help people who drink it regularly to lose weight, lower their cholesterol and generally safeguard their health.
But when it comes to one of the most-cited benefits of green tea, its ability to fight cancer, studies have found plenty of promise and not a lot of evidence.
The promise, researchers say, stems from the tea's polyphenols, which are powerful antioxidants that studies have shown can inhibit the growth of cancer cells in animals. But the evidence has been sparse when researchers have tried to determine if the findings carry over into humans. Results so far are mixed, at best.
( Read More )
Findings: The Grapefruit League
By BENEDICT CAREY, The New York Times, November 29, 2005
Athletes on a hot streak often describe warps in space-time that even Einstein did not anticipate: basketball hoops appearing as wide as hula-hoops, tennis balls that seem to move in slow motion, golf outings in which the cups seem as easy to hit as open manholes. "When you're hitting the ball, it comes at you looking like a grapefruit; when you're not, it looks like a black-eyed pea," the Red Sox slugger George Scott once said.
The changes in perception are apparently real, if sometimes exaggerated.
( Read More )
Vital Signs: Patterns: Research Finds Twins to Be the Slower Siblings
By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, The New York Times, November 29, 2005
Researchers in Scotland have found that twins have substantially lower I.Q.'s than their singleton siblings, based on a sampling of more than 10,000 Scottish children born in the 1950's.
The study, published online Nov. 18 in BMJ, the British Medical Journal, concludes that at least part of the explanation lies in the reduced prenatal growth and shorter gestation typical of twins.
( Read More )
