CHICAGO - There has always been a pervasive but undocumented feeling that Indian philosophy, as manifest in Vedanta on the intellectual plain and yoga on the physical plain, has very significantly influenced the West in general and America in particular. That feeling now finds a meticulously constructed scholastic endorsement in the form of an important new book.

LONDON - As smoking rates continue to fall in Britain, there could be no smokers left in the country in the next 30 to 50 years, a media report said Saturday.

WASHINGTON - A compound in grapes displays antioxidant and other positive properties. Now, a new study has described a novel way in which resveratrol exerts these beneficial health effects.