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TAKE A NUMBER How Much Alcohol Is Safe to Drink? None, Say These Researchers A large study of drinking habits in 195 countries contradicts widely shared advice on healthy drinking. Image While the study was the largest of its kind, it was also observational, linking population-wide consumption to population-wide trends. Credit Credit Peter Nicholls/Reuters By  Nicholas Bakalar Aug. 27, 2018 143 Leer en español 阅读简体中文版 閱讀繁體中文版 Just one alcoholic drink a day slightly  increases an individual’s risk for health problems , according to a large new study.  No level of alcohol consumption conferred any health benefits, the authors also concluded — a finding that runs contrary to much previous research and public health guidelines in many countries. The analysis, involving 195 countries and territories from 1990 to 2016, relied on 694 sources of data and analyzed 592 studies to determine the health risks of alcohol use. While the study ...

Audio Books   Long Before Photoshop, the Soviets Mastered the Art of Erasing People from Photographs — and History Too in  History,  Photography  | August 21st, 2017   5 Comments 3.7k SHARES Advertisement Adobe Photoshop , the world's best-known piece of image-editing software, has long since transitioned from noun to verb: "to Photoshop" has come to mean something like "to alter a photograph, often with intent to mislead or deceive." But in that usage, Photoshopping didn't begin with Photoshop, and indeed the early masters of Photoshopping did it well before anyone had even dreamed of the personal computer, let alone a means to manipulate images on one. In America, the best of them worked for the movies; in Soviet Russia they worked for a different kind of propaganda machine known as the State, not just producing official photos but going back to previous official photos and  changing them  to reflect the re...

Buongiorno! We begin the week with Italy’s Prime Minister at the White House. In welcoming  Giuseppe Conte  on  Monday , President Trump will find himself in the company of another world leader who  campaigned on a populist anti-immigration platform . Conte also  has criticized NATO , another frequent target of the US President. Sure to come up are the  Afghanistan conflict  (Italy is a key US partner) and Trump’s push to bust  trade barriers with the European Union . Also on  Monday , Zimbabwe holds its  first national election  since the army  forced Robert Mugabe out of office  last year in an apparent coup. It's the first time in a generation the strongman won’t be on the ballot, though his influence still looms over a vote that could be among the closest in the nation’s history. More than 20 candidates want to replace interim President  Emmerson Mnangagwa . He’s a frontrunner, along with opposition leader Ne...

Immigration More asylum-seekers will be turned away at the border under a new Trump administration policy. Asylum claims based on fears of gang or domestic violence  will immediately be rejected,  according to new guidance given to officers who interview asylum-seekers at US borders and  evaluate refugee applications . If an immigrant crosses the border illegally, that will also be considered in possibly rejecting an asylum claim (the policy also applies to refugee applicants abroad). The move will likely draw condemnation and legal challenges from immigrant advocates, who believe the new policy may violate international law. Meanwhile, the reunification of all migrant children younger than 5 with their parents  should be completed today.  But the government is still facing down another deadline -- July 26 -- to reunite thousands of older children with their CNNNoticias

Papa John's   The founder and public face of Papa John's is out. John Schnatter resigned as chairman of the pizza company after word got out that  he used the N-word  during a conference call in May. Schnatter admitted he used the word while participating in a role-playing exercise designed to prevent  public relations crises , and he apologized. "Racism has no place in our society," he said. Schnatter, who starred in his company's commercials,  stirred controversy last year  when he said Papa John's sales were hurt by the NFL's handling of players kneeling during the National Anthem to protest racial injustice. The nation's third-largest pizza chain said it would pick a new chairman soon.

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