A study from Harvard School of Public Health found an association with red meat consumption and increased risk of a shortened lifespan. Eating healthier protein sources such as fish, poultry, nuts, and legumes was associated with a lower risk of mortality.
Close reading. In literary criticism, close reading is the careful, sustained interpretation of a brief passage of a text. A close reading emphasizes the single and the particular over the general, effected by close attention to individual words, the syntax, and the order in which the sentences unfold ideas, as the reader scans the line of text. In contemporary English practice, the technique of close reading was pioneered by I. A. Richards and his student William Empson; close reading then was technically dev
Texts not selected for close reading can be used for other reading purposes, such as to help students increase reading fluency. Text used specifically for close reading should enable students to. gain new insight into the text each time they read it, for example, because its structure and/or ideas are complex.