SUPER FOODS - YOGURT

Though you may not live to 120, as commercials once playfully suggested, yogurt does have confirmed health benefits. An excellent source of protein (as much as 13 grams per 8 ounce) and calcium (450 milligrams), this cultured milk food is famous for its friendly bacteria, the Probiotics, which facilitate good digestion and strengthen immunity. Recent research shows that daily consumption of Yogurt reduces body fat and helps keep you slim and fit.

OVERSEAS; For the Aga Khan, Buildings Are Bridges - New York Times

OVERSEAS; For the Aga Khan, Buildings Are Bridges

By DANA MICUCCI

Published: November 18, 2002

''THE instability that we see around the world, from Afghanistan to Central Europe, is a consequence of the rejection of cultural pluralism,'' said the Aga Khan, a man who knows a great deal about cultural pluralism.

He blames that rejection on the enormous gulf of knowledge between the Islamic and the non-Islamic world, a situation that, he said, leaves him deeply saddened.

It is late September, and the Aga Khan is speaking to an interviewer in a Boston hotel suite, where he has come to introduce the latest brainchild of one of his favorite causes. Called ArchNet, a collaboration among the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, it is billed as the world's largest online resource for the study of Islamic architecture, urban planning and landscape design.

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