BBC News | AMERICAS | Clinton gifts under scrutiny (#)
„Mrs Clinton's spokesman, Howard Wolfson, said the couple had received many gifts during their administration, and had disclosed them "like other presidents have". Coffee tables In the year before the Clintons left the White House, they received $190,000 worth of furniture and other gifts. Friends and supporters such as film director Steven Spielberg, insurance magnate Walter Kaye, and actor Ted Danson provided the couple with china and furniture for their new house in Chappaqua. As a senator, Mrs Clinton cannot receive gifts worth more than $100 Denise Rich gave them two coffee tables and two chairs worth more than $7,000.“
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BBC News | UK | Three more groups claim Brixton bomb
„The number 159 bus stalled at the market on its way to nearby Streatham. Mr Bunn said: "We assume a person must have got off that bus and walked towards the explosion before it went off. Police are still anxious to trace the owner of the sports bag in which the bomb was found"There is the possibility that the bomber got off that bus and was on his way somewhere else." Commander Hugh Orde said a full page advert featuring the X-ray of a 23-month old child with a four inch nail in his head was being published in Friday's Evening Standard newspaper. 'Pricking people's conscience' He said the aim was to "prick the conscience" of anyone with information.“
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_326000/ 326523.stm
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BBC News | HEALTH | Caffeine 'reduces productivity'
„The average cup of coffee contains about 100mg of caffeine. Of 1,000 office workers surveyed for Volvic mineral water, 76% said they drank tea, coffee or caffeinated cola more than three times during the working day, with one in 20 consuming more than 10 drinks. Stress specialist Dr David Lewis, who analysed the research for Volvic, is calling for traditional morning and afternoon breaks to be scrapped. Toilet visits He said: "Our clinical research found that a high caffeine intake (more than 350mg during the working day) acts as a powerful diuretic and causes people to visit the toilet more frequently, which can lead to performance-zapping dehydration.“
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BBC NEWS | Health | Row over coffee advice for diabetics
„Rob van Dam, who led the research, said: "In view of the widespread use of coffee and the large health burden of type 2 diabetes, our finding of an inverse association between coffee consumption and risk of type 2 diabetes could have important public-health implications. "However, our findings need to be replicated and possible adverse effects on other health aspects should be considered in the choice to consume coffee." He told BBC News Online: "It has been shown over and over again that caffeine lowers insulin sensitivity. But they only study people for a few hours. Exercise and diet "If you look over several days, then there's not such a clear effect - a tolerance of caffeine could develop.“
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BBC - Get Writing - - A3411118 - "Coffee Man"
„There was this, and much, much more; but yes, he did eventually perish, which was unfortunate. A single polished stainless steel urn, said to contain the posthumous ashes of this Coffee Man - was later stolen, from its permanent resting grounds on the second floor of the Moma where it was part of a much larger installation entitled: Deadly Serious Art, The Fashion of Fanaticism; and, in a related development, later turned up on the person of an art student from The Parsons School of Design who attempted to melt these said remains down in a spoon and inject them into her veins in a bizarre and dangerous graduation day stunt, one that rocked the community at large, even threatening to tarnish the good name of that institution of higher learning: "This, and seventy-five cents gets you a cup of coffee!" she was rumored to have screamed, brandishing her diploma, before being tackled by a bystander.“
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BBC - BBC Four Profile - Howard Schultz
„With Starbucks, Schultz wanted to create "the kind of company that my father never got a chance to work for, in which people were respected". From coffee-makers to coffee millions“
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