Harnessing Healing Powers

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Issue: May 31, 2009

It was the report that changed the world's perception of a glass of wine. In 1991, 60 Minutes correspondent Morley Safer came on television screens and told viewers what many wine drinkers had always secretly believed—that wine is good for us.

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