I don't think it's black and white. It's important to know that a lot of these studies have been done in diseased populations. These vitamins are not drugs. They can't be expected to cure or reverse 20, 30 or 40 years of disease.

Future trials need to explore in more detail the response of those with both mild and moderate symptoms.

There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

I like to think that I've got determination, and I'm fiercely protective of the people I love.

Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I think I've always been good at that.

There are two perspectives on the oil sands. You have companies that want to make it the next Saudi Arabia. The other is that it's a transitional resource to a low-carbon economy, and to regard it as anything else is to drain the continent's financial resources.