Up close and edible:Green teaGreen tea is one of the most popular beverages to hit the U.S. market in the last decade. Unlike black tea or oolong, green tea is made from unfermented tea leaves. Becaus...
Pass the bacteria, please! Bacteria are terribly good for you. So say the promoters of a rapidly growing industry in probiotic products. The title probiotic (for life) is technically reserved for thos...
Online booksellers face highercosts for shipping abroad THE Postal Service is taking the ship out of shipping, and thousands of small online booksellers are bracing for trouble.The post office said la...
A robot in the kitchen Matt Mason has seen the future-and it's fun. As director of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, Mason likes thinking about how machines can make our lives easi...
Athens: Then & Now Imagine you are a citizen of Athens, enjoying a warm Mediterranean night in the Theater of Herodes Atticus. You are wearing jeans and a T-shirt, listening to a great concert.Now...
A Passover sermon, a play, anda century of the Melting pot The melting pot metaphor, touchstone of America's debate over immigration, was claimed by the rabbi of a New York City synagogue, who said he...
SWIFTER, HIGHER, STRONGER Although Citius, altius, fortius ("Swifter, higher, stronger") is the Latin motto of today's Olympic Games, athletes have been striving to improve their athletic sk...
Economics focus:Rate of decline IN AMERICA retail banking is still a local business. Around 95% of the country's deposittakers are "community" banks, estimates those institutions' trade b...
Brain cancer: Happy families, hidden dangers IT IS well known that many sorts of cancer run in families; in other words you get them (or, at least, a genetic predisposition towards them) from your par...
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