Newsweek International articles from May 2002

Newsweek International archives from May 2002

CORRECTION.(Correction Notice)
May 6, 2002... In our item "Shower to the Nth Power" (Periscope, April 22), we took on the Gay-Lussac theory, which partially explains why wet shower curtains tend to cling to your body. The short answer is that the cooler air of the room impels the curtain...

The Fear Factor.(immigration policy Europe)
May 6, 2002... Across Europe, the sky is falling. Jean-Marie Le Pen blusters his way into the second round of the French elections, and statesmen far and wide rush to repudiate him and everything he stands for, stopping short only of likening him to Hitler....

A Town Divided.(Jews and Muslims in Bondy, France)(Brief Article)
May 6, 2002... Annie Levy, 36, likes to say that her hometown of Bondy on the eastern outskirts of Paris "is a little picture of France." But the picture isn't a very pretty one these days. Last year the synagogue was burned. Last month young men in a local...

The Man in Jiang's Shadow.(President Jiang Zemin and Vice-President Hu Jintao, China)
May 6, 2002... To fully understand why Hu Jintao flees the limelight, look no farther than his clan village in Jixi, Anhui province. Slated to become the next president of China, Hu is a prominent name in the flyspeck hamlet of Da Kengkou. But he's not the...

The 'Successors' Dilemma'.(Hu Jintao in Washington D.C.)(Brief Article)
May 6, 2002... This week Washington staged something like a "precoronation party" for China's vice president, Hu Jintao, the unofficially annointed heir to Chinese Communist Party chief Jiang Zemin. Accepting wise advice, President Bush invited this young...

Going Up in Flames.(Hindus on Muslims in Gujarat, India)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
May 6, 2002... Mohammad Ilyas picks his way through the smoking skeleton of his garment shop. Amid the charred wood, the businessman, wearing a filthy green shirt, is a picture of bewilderment. It's the first time he's seen his business since he pulled down...

The Earth Island Rules.(Earth Island Institute monitors tuna industry to protect dolphins)(Statistical Data Included)
May 6, 2002... This is the unlikely tale of how an obscure San Francisco office of dolphin lovers gained what all activists lust for: real power. Over the last decade, the Earth Island Institute has become a de facto global regulator of the $2 billion-a-year...

Is Magical Realism Dead?
May 6, 2002... In the recent short story by Chilean author Alberto Fuguet "Mas Estrellas Que en el Cielo" ("More Stars Than in the Sky"), two young Chileans are holding forth in a Los Angeles coffee shop. The pair--a photographer and a filmmaker--are part of...

Remedios the Beauty Is Alive and Well.(magic realism)(Brief Article)
May 6, 2002... I just got the news that magical realism is dead. The great literary form that made Latin American literature as popular as the mambo has been assassinated by parricides and I missed it. Should we hold a wake? Does this mean Gabriel Garcia...

Bohemian Beer Bust.(Czech brewing industry)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)(Industry Overview)
May 6, 2002... Musician Ludek Werner hasn't eaten for days, but he's not worried. Sitting in a smoky Prague pub, he holds up his glass of golden Pilsner and exults: "I don't need food, as I get all the vitamins and nutrition I need from this." No wonder...

Hard-Wired for Survival.(biorobots)(Brief Article)
May 6, 2002... Gaak is one mean stage villain. Indifferent to the screams of the audience, he hoists his prey off the ground, plunges a fang into its heart and sucks out its vital energy. Without so much as a pause for remorse, he whirs off in search of fresh...

Rise of the Thumb Kids.(younger generation's use of mobile telecommunications)(Brief Article)(Interview)
May 6, 2002... In an effort to figure out how mobile phones and the Internet are changing the world, Sadie Plant traveled to Dubai, Chicago, Tokyo and several other cities and interviewed people from a wide range of socioeconomic backgrounds. Plant, founder...

'I Want My Money'.(economic collase of Argentina)(Brief Article)
May 6, 2002... Susana Gimenez stood with angry Argentines outside Congress last week, clutching a homemade sign reading, I WANT MY SAVINGS NOW. Never mind that the money is gone: Argentina has $12 billion in reserves left against outstanding deposits twice...

Don't Make Monkey Cry.(online gym motivates members with animated monkeys)(Brief Article)
May 6, 2002... You know you ought to do something about that spare tire around your waist, but what? Sports clubs in Tokyo are either too crowded or too expensive, and that miracle machine you ordered is collecting dust. A Japanese Web site has a novel...

Why Mexico Spurns Castro.(Mexican-Cuban relations)(Brief Article)(Interview)
May 6, 2002... Since Vicente Fox became president of Mexico in 2000, his country's relations with Cuba have been deteriorating. Last week they reached a new low after Fidel Castro released a tape of a private conversation with Fox. Contradicting earlier...

Country Roads.(traveling rural America)(Brief Article)
May 6, 2002... Think tourism in America, and you usually think of the hurly-burly of New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. But America is not, in fact, an urban country. It is, rather, a vast land of thousands upon thousands of small towns, where values are...

Is That You in Aisle 6?(global positioning system for use in cities)(Brief Article)
May 6, 2002... The interior stairwell in most office buildings is a no man's land, intended only for escaping fires. But for Michael Kim, it provides the ideal setting to show off his new product to visitors. Kim is the president of the South San Francisco...

Perspectives.(world news quotations)(Brief Article)
May 6, 2002... "I ask [my compatriots] to express their refusal of the extreme right." French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, indirectly endorsing his longtime political nemesis, President Jacques Chirac, over far-right candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen HELP! A...

Periscope.
May 6, 2002... PUBLIC RELATIONS Selling the Saudis in a 'Favorable' Light Concerned about "tracking polls" showing that its "favorable" rating with the American public has yet to climb back to pre-9-11 levels, the Saudi Arabian government has...

The New Cultural Nationalism.
May 6, 2002... November 1095. Pope Urban II traveled to Clermont, in France, to launch the first Crusade against Islam. It was thus historically resonant when Jean-Marie Le Pen took up the cudgels against Islamic immigrants by limping into second place in the...

How Will Israel Survive?(Letters)
May 13, 2002... Your cover story on the Palestinian-Israeli dilemma was well done, and managed to escape most of the simplistic self-serving stereotypes and cliches we are so often treated to ("How Will Israel Survive?" Special Report, April 1). I appreciate...

Turn Off the Lights.(nightclubs)(Brief Article)
May 13, 2002... The Seoul police arrived at J.'s home around 8 a.m. one day last month. They rousted the 25-year-old model from her bed, hauled her to the local station and--after demanding a urine sample and denying her legal counsel--said an informant had...

All That Glitters.(Russian economy)
May 13, 2002... Three years ago, British Petroleum retreated from Russia. In the wild and woolly days of post-communist euphoria, it had invested $480 million in a Siberian producer called Sidanco with rights to 2 billion barrels' worth of oil reserves. In...

Backlash in the East.(Polish right wing)(Brief Article)
May 13, 2002... Make no mistake, Roman Giertych can be a real fire-breather. The leader of the right-wing League of Polish Families delivers his message with passionate conviction--and it's exactly what his audience in the depressed city of Olsztyn wants to...

Bobbies Calling NYPD.(London crime)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
May 13, 2002... When the two young men reached through the open window of Liza Minnelli's Mercedes-Benz and tried to snatch her jewel-encrusted necklace in London last month, the honeymooning star put on a brave face. "I am a New Yorker, after all," she...

The Perils of Victory.(political platforms)(Brief Article)
May 13, 2002... French communists went begging last week. Every May 1 they raise funds on the street peddling little bouquets of lilies of the valley. Organized charities and individual mendicants do the same thing in a well-established May Day tradition....

A Rebellion in Twilight.(Moro Islamic Liberation Front)(Brief Article)
May 13, 2002... Militant groups come and --eventually--go in the Philippines. Right now, about 1,000 American troops are on the impoverished southern island of Mindanao, doing engineering work and trying to hunt down members of Abu Sayyaf, the small but nasty...

What To Wear?(Japanese economy)(Statistical Data Included)
May 13, 2002... The hot book among Japan's elite is written as a children's story, "The Lion Cannot Get to Sleep." Penned by the pseudonymous "Samuel Ryder," the allegorical tale about Japan's economic crisis has inspired debates in the national Legislature....

Roots of Rebellion.(university culture)
May 13, 2002... It doesn't take a sleuth to find the intellectual roots of Japan's cabinet. Five ministers, all leading reformers, either attended or taught at Keio University, a private, unabashedly preppy institution that long played second fiddle to Tokyo...

Milking 9-11 for Dollars.(government spending)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
May 13, 2002... Somewhere in Washington, a whistle-blower called "Spartacus" is living a double life. A few months ago the anonymous aide to a U.S. senator penned an insider's report on what really happened after September 11 on Capitol Hill. One by one,...

Life in the Spy Business.(The Company)
May 13, 2002... So you think cold-war spy novels are passe and that you couldn't possibly be lured into reading another one? Especially one that's 894 pages long? Think again. Robert Littell's "The Company" (Overlook Press) reads like a breeze and is...

A Box of Your Own.(microdwellings in London)(Brief Article)
May 13, 2002... It was out of desperation that two London architects, Stuart Piercy, 30, and Richard Conner, 29, decided to design themselves a place to live. Neither had the cash to survive in a city where the average price of a modest flat has more than...

Speaking Up For Themselves.(street kids in India)
May 13, 2002... The Bal Vikas bank has some strict rules: no loans for drug peddlers, sex abusers, pickpockets, liquor or cigarette salespeople--or anyone under 14. Then again, the bankers themselves aren't exactly pin-striped fogies: they're a group of Delhi...

Hip-Hopping In Havana.
May 13, 2002... On a postcard-perfect spring evening, with Caribbean breezes rustling the palm trees under a full moon, dozens of foreign tourists take their seats at linen-covered tables beside the pool at Havana's Hotel Nacional. Each has shelled out...

America Has Lost Its Way.(The World We're In)
May 13, 2002... Will Hutton is a skillful surfer of the Zeitgeist. In 1995, his U.K. best seller "The State We're In" nicely captured the mood of hopeful anticipation as the British electorate prepared to vote out the Conservatives after 18 years and bring in...

The Saudi Gambit.(Brief Article)(Interview)
May 13, 2002... Saudi Arabia's veteran foreign minister, prince Saud al-Faisal, was a central player in crucial meetings at President George W. Bush's ranch in Texas that led to long-awaited breakthroughs in the Middle East stalemate last week: the end of the...

After Midnight.(24/7 American lifestyle)(Brief Article)
May 13, 2002... Tharoor is the author, most recently, of the novel "Riot." The other night the young lady in my life developed a craving for hot chocolate. The only problem was, it was well past midnight and there was no milk in the fridge. In a hundred...

Perspectives.(Brief Article)
May 13, 2002... "The more destruction I see, the stronger I get." Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat, after his release from 34 days of imprisonment, on the wreckage Israeli troops left in Ramallah "These men and women whose task is the moral and civic...

Musharraf's Risky Gambit.(Gen. Pervez Musharraf)(Brief Article)
May 13, 2002... Pakistan's military leader, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, wants more legitimacy for his rule, and last week he tried rather desperately to get it. The general is worried that a new Parliament, to be elected later this year, will be hostile to his...

Wrong Mouths.(aid to North Korea)(Brief Article)
May 13, 2002... In a starving country, food is a political weapon. South Korea and the United States ship tons of grain and other staples to North Korea every year. But much of it may not be getting to the malnourished people who need it most. According to a...

No More Smoke.(anti-smoking laws)(Brief Article)
May 13, 2002... Last week came more proof that in the West, the smoker is a pariah. Norway proposed a ban on butts in all restaurants and bars, the first such proscription in the world. If the measure passes Parliament, said Health Minister Dagfinn Hoybraten,...

The New Street-Wise Nanny.(The Norland College)(Brief Article)(Company Profile)
May 13, 2002... Make way for the wise-cracking, street-wise nanny. The Norland College, founded in 1892, is the world's most elite nanny-training school. For decades it has supplied nannies to the rich and famous--among them Mick Jagger, Princess Anne and the...

Dazzling Offer.(Shah of Iran's family wishes to sell antique jewelry)(Brief Article)
May 13, 2002... Black gold may be more valuable than antique gold these days. The family of the late Shah of Iran wants to invest some of their collection of rare and precious stones, as well as antiquarian gold, in Russia's booming oil sector. According to...

Going Free?(Aung San Suu Kyi )(Brief Article)
May 13, 2002... Burma's ruling military junta has spent more than a decade trying to silence famed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi with lengthy bouts of house arrest. But the generals now seem ready to drop that strategy. The Burmese capital was abuzz last...

Selling Anti-Americanism.(Brief Article)(Interview)
May 13, 2002... Does it pay to speak out against America in Europe? Yes, according to Peter Wilby, editor of the British weekly New Statesman. The magazine has seen a 20 percent subscription increase since its first scathing post-September 11 editorial, which...

First Person Global.(baseball in the Dominican Republic)(Brief Article)
May 13, 2002... I've lived in the United States for nearly 15 years. But baseball-- America's national pastime--always baffled me. Overstuffing yourself with hot dogs, so many games (162 per season) that each seems meaningless individually, depressingly few...

Dynamic Duo.(exhibition of works by Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso)(Brief Article)
May 13, 2002... Whom do you prefer: Matisse or Picasso? That's been the standard art- world Rorschach test for about 75 years. If you prefer Picasso, then you like risk and revolution. If you'd rather look at Matisse, then you fancy balmy Riviera vacations....

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
May 20, 2002... Looking for New Sources of Energy Readers of our April 8/15 double issue were grateful for our examination of alternative energy sources. One reader wrote, "You cast a new light on our now not-so-dim future." Others hastened to suggest...

Sudden Death : A brutal political assassination blows Holland apart--and poses a fundamental challenge for all of Europe.(Pim Fortuyn)
May 20, 2002... On Sunday, May 5, a judge for the Amsterdam High Court, Jan Wolter Wabeke, hosted a long and leisurely "Burgundian lunch" for some important political friends. They were high government officials and their spouses; among them were even a few...

See Chen Run : Taiwan's hyperkinetic president still needs to prove to his people--and to Beijing--that he can be as effective a leader as he is a candidate.
May 20, 2002... Chen Shui-Bian must be the most photographed man in Taiwan. When he invites new guests over for dinner, he has his picture taken with each one and then presents it to them, framed and autographed, at the end of the meal. Foreign delegations...

'It's Not Necessary to Wait'.(Brief Article)(Interview)
May 20, 2002... Taiwan's president speaks candidly about China's new leader, fixing the economy and reconciliation with the mainland Chen Shui-Bian's victory in Taiwan's 2000 presidential election not only ousted the ruling Kuomintang from power for the...

'The Face of a Killer?' : A former U.S. ally runs afoul of Kabul, setting up a showdown that could disrupt the war on terror.(Padcha Khan Zadran)(Brief Article)
May 20, 2002... Padcha Khan Zadran is lucky if he can find a stretch of ground to lay down upon. Gone are the heady days when he slept in plush hotels--as he did last December during the Afghan peace process in Bonn, fawned over by United Nations officials and...

Wal-Mart World : Can the Arkansas giant export its price-cutting culture around the world? It aims to, and global retail markets are headed for a shake-up.(Company Profile)
May 20, 2002... Wal-Mart does not look or act like a corporate colossus. The company's headquarters in tiny Bentonville, Arkansas, is located directly across the street from Colleen's Beauty Chalet (a modest clapboard house). The main building is little more...

An African Spin on Corporate Casual : ="Mandela chose the Pathe O look; now everyone does.(Brief Article)
May 20, 2002... The storefront isn't much. The proprietor doesn't advertise. Passersby in gritty Treicheville, the tailors' quarter of Abidjan, hardly give it a glance. Often enough, though, a diplomat's shiny Mercedes stands at the curb, or an African beauty...

Fighting the Water Wars : Along the Rio Grande, competition for a scarce resource.
May 20, 2002... Dale Murden ("like murder, except with an n," he explains) was driving his pickup through the 100-degree Texas heat on a recent afternoon when his mobile phone rang. It was another farmer, who began the conversation by saying, "Mexico sucks."...

The Insidious Spread of A Killer Virus : Hundreds of millions are infected with the stealth virus. Most don't know it.(Statistical Data Included)
May 20, 2002... Doctors have told Saeed Taha that he has only weeks to live. The 48-year-old electrician is sprawled on a Cairo hospital bed with tubes connected, seemingly, to every major vein and artery. A decade ago he was diagnosed with hepatitis C....

Crashing the New Wave : As this year's Cannes Film Festival will show, French directors are again making movies people want to see.(Brief Article)
May 20, 2002... Something radical has happened to French cinema over the past couple of years: Gallic directors are back to making movies that people want to see, abroad as well as at home. Of the 185 million movie tickets sold in France last year, 41 percent...

'An Act of Blasphemy' : That's what Russians think of a new account of the fall of Berlin to the Soviet Army in 1945. It is an ugly tale indeed.(Berlin: The Downfall 1945)
May 20, 2002... It is early April 1945, and the Red Army has fought its way almost to the gates of Berlin. Defeat is inevitable. Inside the city, the Berlin Philharmonic stages a last performance. On the program: Wagner's Gotterdmmerung, the Twilight of the...

Race for Ruins : Malaysia's eastern waters are littered with the wrecks of ancient ships. Who will get their treasures?(Brief Article)
May 20, 2002... Sten Sjostrand is obsessed with wrecks. For the past nine years, the Swedish marine engineer has been scouring the waters off Malaysia's east coast for the wreckage of ancient trading ships. So far, he has uncovered seven vessels, ranging in...

'No, We Ain't Dead'.(Brief Article)(Interview)
May 20, 2002... Interview with NATO Secretary General George Robertso Ever since the end of the cold war, NATO has been trying to adapt to changing times and carve out a new mission for itself. Then came September 11. Suddenly, the alliance was on the...

Tropical Europe, Or 'Viva Evita!': Reflections on the assassination of Pym Fortuyn.(Brief Article)
May 20, 2002... It's a little colder, and the bougainvilleas aren't in bloom, but Europe this spring looks a lot like Latin America. The cozy consensus that has long governed the Old World is giving way to a culture of mass rallies, extremist leaders and...

Brazil's Tussle Over U.S. Steel.(Brief Article)(Interview)
May 20, 2002... NEWSWEEK talks with Brazil's Trade and Development Minister Sergio Amaral Brazil and the United States have long cooperated closely in the hemisphere, whether it means stamping out money laundering or building better school systems. The...

Lining Up for a Pinch of Poison : One womans public display of affection with Botox.(Brief Article)
May 20, 2002... My obsession with Botox started innocently enough, with a routine visit to my Hollywood dermatologist. I'd always had an unsightly frown line between my eyebrows, but I used to consider it the mark of a deep thinker. Living in southern...

Perspectives.
May 20, 2002... "Cuba has absolutely nothing to hide." President Fidel Castro, refuting American allegations that his country is developing biological weapons "Never has a country denounced its own signature of a treaty." A statement by the Lawyers...

Computer Lessons for Terrorists.(threat of digital sabotage; the Muslim Hackers Club)(Brief Article)
May 20, 2002... Al Qaeda terrorists interested in computer hacking are just clicks away from a crash course in digital sabotage. A Web site operated by the Muslim Hackers Club offers tutorials in cybermischief: viruses, hacking strategems, network "phreaking"...

Not Much Mercy for Murder.(execution of two men involved in murder of Revolutionary Afghan Women's Association founder Meena)(Brief Article)
May 20, 2002... Two men were hanged for murder in the remote Pakistani town of Much last week. The murderers begged for mercy, but to no avail. Such a brutal execution is not that uncommon in Pakistan. What was surprising was the identity of the...

Korea's Gateway?(North Koreans flee to China)(Brief Article)
May 20, 2002... Last Wednesday five members of the Kil Su family stormed the Japanese Consulate in the Chinese city of Shenyang, seeking political asylum. All made it through the front gate before Chinese police dragged them back. Much to Beijing's chagrin,...

Mr. Can't Do Right.(Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi)(Brief Article)
May 20, 2002... Since his election one year ago, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has sought to establish Italy--and himself--as an international player. But when given the chance to host 13 exiled Palestinians and take credit for resolving the...

Two Days.(bombs in Karachi and Kaspiisk)(Brief Article)
May 20, 2002... Last Wednesday yet another terrorist attack against Westerners took place in Pakistan. This time, a Karachi bombing killed 11 French shipwrights and three Pakistanis, putting Pakistani antiterrorism efforts to shame. But something positive may...

A Perfect Visit 'By the Lake'.
May 20, 2002... John McGahern's "That They May Face the Rising Sun" is the most perfect novel I've read in years. By perfect I mean composed, or built, like a handcrafted table, with everything mortised and sanded and finished to a T. Things happen in this...

First Person Global.(Brief Article)
May 20, 2002... He crawled in, looked around, ran across the room--and made himself at home in my kitchen. My friend walked in as he was sniffing around. She screamed (I cowered), and the intruder stood his ground. London's rat problem had finally become mine....

Hot Spots.
May 27, 2002... (Chart) Hot Spots: Most tourists know to avoid the Middle East, but political unrest may also rule out climbing Everest or seeing the lemurs of Madagascar. Check the U.S. State Department's site before takeoff, but here are some current danger...

India's Muslims.
May 27, 2002... Our April 22 report on religious violence in India drew a huge response from sad and angry readers of all faiths. Some blamed the Sharia and Muslim "orthodoxy," others blamed Hindu fundamentalist politicians. Many simply lamented the death of...

Hurray for Globowood.(Hollywood as a global institution)
May 27, 2002... Poor Jean-Marie Messier: he's so misunderstood. He became a national hero by turning an old French water company into Vivendi Universal, international media giant. That gave the French what they had never had before: real power in Hollywood....

The Bush and Putin Encore.(George W. Bush, Vladimir Putin)
May 27, 2002... For 57 years, Russians and Americans have marked the May anniversary of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. This year the day took on a special resonance. When the U.S. Defense attache at the embassy in Moscow was promoted to...

Dispatches From Hell.(Chechen massacre)(Brief Article)
May 27, 2002... Anna Politkovskaya, 43, sits in her office at the Moscow newspaper Novaya Gazeta, leafing through documents. She's hoping to prove, in a Russian court, that Chechen civilians have been massacred by Russian soldiers. Her problem is that crucial...

Czech Treasure Hunt.(Amber Room)(Brief Article)
May 27, 2002... The tiny Czech hamlet of Hora Svate Kateriny isn't easy to find. A steep, unmarked, fog-enshrouded road twists and turns through miles of mountains and ominous forest, winding up in this remote village. Improbable as it may seem, some say, Hora...

'We Are Lucky'.(Jose (Xanana) Gusmo)(Interview)(Brief Article)
May 27, 2002... Three years ago, Jose (Xanana) Gusmo was a political prisoner languishing in a Jakarta prison. Today he's president of the world's newest nation. His new job may be even harder than leading the armed resistance to Indonesian occupation: East...

Learning the Old Ways.(Confucian education)(Brief Article)
May 27, 2002... The toddlers clad in satiny Chinese tunics don't seem to be taking the day's lesson to heart. As one 5-year-old girl recites from the Confucian classic, Discipline of Students, boys in the back row smack each other with their textbooks. Another...

Houses of Hope.(urban renewal in Soweto)(Brief Article)
May 27, 2002... The troops are ready. Before dawn one morning this week, the Red Ants will descend on Devlins, a 7,000-shack squatter camp near Soweto. These 300 black men in bright red overalls are prepared for trouble: the job is to take down people's homes....

Tales of a Doomed Empire.
May 27, 2002... Philip Hensher doesn't apologize for being an Orientalist, that now unfashionable breed of writer who paints florid images of a wily, unknowable East. "Orientalism's one of the great European literary modes," says the English novelist. "Why not...

Courtoisie On the Court.(Lacoste launches new line)(Brief Article)
May 27, 2002... The French have a way of making everything elegant. Like tennis. At the French Open later this month, the clay courts will look colorful and neat. The players, to keep from falling, will slide into balletlike poses. Should they stumble, they'll...

Sit On It.(lavatories in China)(Brief Article)
May 27, 2002... Finding a public toilet in most of China is not difficult: you can smell it long before you see it. But that's all beginning to change. Recently, Beijing authorities promised a "toilet revolution" at the annual WTO meeting in Singapore--that's...

Tea Time.(health benefits of tea)(Brief Article)
May 27, 2002... Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one," says a Chinese proverb. Research is showing it may just be true. Recently Dr. Kenneth Mukamal of Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center reported that out of 1,900...