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The Claim: Grapefruit Can Increase the Risk of Breast Cancer

Really? By ANAHAD O’CONNOR
Correction Appended
THE FACTS
A recent e-mail chain has some people concerned about grapefruit. The messages refer to a 2007 study in The British Journal of Cancer that found an increased risk of breast cancer among postmenopausal women who ate large amounts of grapefruit. In the group of women, more than 46,000 over all, […]

Not a Mercury or Saturn, but It Goes Way Off Road

By JOHN SCHWARTZ : HOUSTON
IT turns on a dime and parallel-parks like a dream.
On the downside, it’s a little pricey (at $2 million or so) and its top speed is a pokey 15 miles an hour.
Still, there’s a lot to like about the concept car taking shape here at the Johnson Space Center.
Did I say […]

Corporate Sponsors Nervous as Tibet Protest Groups Shadow Olympic Torch’s Run

By HEATHER TIMMONS
The disruption of a Chinese official’s address during the Olympic torch lighting ceremonies in Greece last week was just the beginning of a string of protests planned to coincide with the torch’s trip around the globe.
Monday’s incident was “like lighting a fuse that is going to burn from now until the Olympics in […]

Smooth and Safe at Pier 94

Art Review : By ROBERTA SMITH
These days contemporary-art fairs tend to travel in franchised packs. A large successful fair spawns parasite copycat fairs, and before you know it, you’ve got an art-fair fair.
New York is having one this weekend. The Armory Show, now in its 10th incarnation, is back, accompanied by nine younger, smaller, less […]

Somalia’s Government Teeters on Collapse

By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN
MOGADISHU, Somalia — The trouble started when government soldiers went to the market and, at gunpoint, began to help themselves to sacks of grain last week.
Islamist insurgents poured into the streets to defend the merchants. The government troops took heavy casualties and retreated all the way back to the presidential palace, supposedly the […]

Dalai Lama and China: Old Enmity

By HOWARD W. FRENCH
SHANGHAI — Across much of the Western world, the Dalai Lama is known as the beatific spiritual leader of a humble community of Buddhists, beloved in Hollywood, Congress and the White House, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Chinese leaders cast him in a different light. They call him a separatist and a […]