Compared with those eating the low-fat diet, the extra-virgin-olive-oil group showed a 30% lower risk of having a heart attack, stroke or dying of heart disease after five years, while those consuming the Mediterranean diet with more nuts showed a 28% lower risk of these outcomes.
Investigators in Spain randomized 7447 people at high risk for cardiovascular disease to one of three diets: a Mediterranean diet supplemented with extra-virgin olive oil, a Mediterranean diet supplemented with nuts, or a control diet for which people were advised to lower their intake of dietary fat.
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Virgin Mobile, a 50-50 joint venture between Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group and Germany's T-Mobile, parent of the One2One network, claimed year-on-year customer growth of 34%.
Virgin is a so-called virtual operator, which leases network capacity from an existing operator and markets services under its own brand.
It is hard now to believe that in 1902 a tiger was shot under the billiard table (that the big cat emerged from a circus rather than virgin rain-forest, and was shot by a school headmaster, makes the story no less exotic).
Casie Stewart, a 28-year-old social-media consultant from Toronto, has earned a free Virgin America flight, a shopping splurge at Mark's Work Wearhouse and an all-expenses-paid trip to New Zealand fashion week thanks to her prolific tweeting and blogging about her life.
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Hollywood films such as 2008's "The Love Guru" and 2005's "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" -- which ends with a musical dance number -- also borrow from Bollywood, Newman said, but are comedies that parody the enchantment in Bollywood films.
Thus, Kristen Connolly's sympathetic Dana -- not quite a virgin, but clearly the designated "good girl" -- is something more than just the sum of her body parts (even if she is upstaged by a dismembered arm in one scene), and Fran Kranz's witty pot-head conspiracy theorist is such an engaging personality the movie risks deflating without him.
But it is Branson's latest venture -- Virgin Media -- which has set him on a collision course with Murdoch.
Branson told BBC Sport that Virgin had signed a three-year title sponsorship deal that did not involve any equity in the team.
Companies preparing for commercial suborbital passenger service include Virgin Galactic, a U.S.-based offshoot of Branson's Virgin Group of London, and XCOR Aerospace of Mojave, Calif.
Glock, who will be entering his third season in F1, signed a two-year deal to become Virgin's lead driver after finding himself without a drive for 2010 following Toyota's withdrawal.
In Britain it is now on sale only in a few duty-free shops and on Virgin flights, though Virgin plans to launch a chain of Virgin Vodka bars.
It wasn't until 20 years later, with Neve Campbell's turn in Scream, that a non-virgin survived.
The Virgin Galactic experience is a two-parter: the mother ship, Eve, will carry SpaceShip Two to 50, 000 feet before releasing it.
The firm - not affiliated with Richard Branson's Virgin Group - has 26 stores in France, including a flagship outlet on the Champs Elysees in Paris.
Wirth has decided to design the new Virgin car without using a wind-tunnel, a tool for shaping a car's aerodynamics that has been de rigueur in F1 for 30 years.
But AQR co-author Dean Headley says full-price and premium airlines like Virgin tend to attract more complaints than low-cost economy carriers, so Virgin might have taken a hit on customer complaints because its passengers expect more than those flying other airlines.
Hey, maybe they could do a duet together, a mash-up of Like a Rolling Stone and Like a Virgin?
While a program like Virgin's offers employees some short-term benefits, it may have less impact on a company's overall effectiveness, he says.
Newcastle United has said it is ending its multimillion-pound sponsorship deal with Virgin Money a year early.
Virgin Energy claims it is a low-cost business, and promises to pass on lower costs to customers.
In one study, researchers made three types of cakes: margarine only, extra-virgin olive oil only, and a combination of olive oil and margarine.
My hope is that Limbaugh ends up as the in-store deejay at a Virgin megastore in a strip mall in the middle of nowhere.
The offer came on the day that Virgin Atlantic announced details of a short-haul business to compete with British Airways on routes linking London's Heathrow airport and Scotland.
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But don't forget that the enlarged Virgin Money will still be a minnow - less than a tenth of the size of the big banking beasts on most measures.
The six-room Buccaneer Beach House will open on 4 January at The Buccaneer resort on St Croix in the US Virgin Islands with a combination of one- and two-room villas and cottages.
Canadians have had fairly limited options for LTE-based 4G if they didn't want to turn to the three main carrier brands: they could go to a Bell-owned Virgin Mobile, and that's it.
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When Sir Richard Branson this week announced plans to enter space tourism with a company called Virgin Galactic, his Virgin group also unveiled a new online music store and a start-up airline in Nigeria that will become that nation's flag carrier.
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