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...Kahn has also researched insulin resistance, a phenomenon that is central to Type 2 Diabetes but about which little was known in the 1970s. Kahn has devoted his career to studying the various aspects of Type 2, which represents roughly 90 percent of worldwide diabetes cases. The condition is acquired due to interaction between genes and environmental factors like obesity, and it is spreading rapidly—the annual rate of new cases in the U.S. is 9.8 per 1,000 people...
...Since he added Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter club sandwiches to his menu in the early 1970s, naming food items after politicians, professors, or celebrities has been a tradition at Mr. Bartley’s Cottage...
...emcees of Adams House Drag Night. You go, girls. In all its hilarity, Drag Night was founded on serious origins. Adams Social Co-Chair Sean P. Bala ’09 says that it stems from opposition to “a series of riots against homosexuality in the 1970s.” Known for its artistic flair, Adams responded with dresses and lipstick, and Drag Night has remained a “tradition of celebration” ever since, much to the delight and bewilderment of its residents. Audience members consisted of rowdy vets eager to see friends test...
...look now, but here comes Europe's violent extreme-left again. Two decades after French police busted the radical group Action Directe, which waged a bloody urban guerrilla war during the 1970s and 1980s against French business and military interests, French authorities on Tuesday nabbed a group of anarchists suspected of having sabotaged the nation's high-speed rail system over the last several weeks. The arrests aim not only to put an end to the spate of vandalism that had wreaked havoc and panic among French travelers for the past two weeks; they may also derail any violent plans...
...political incorrectness, and a man who embodied both. Directed by Malcolm D. Lee and written by Robert Ramsey and Matthew Stone—the duo behind “Intolerable Cruelty”—“Soul Men” is a lowbrow comedy about two 1970s backup singers who reunite to perform at a memorial concert for their former group leader. The film opens with a hilarious montage of the group’s earlier years when they were known as “Marcus Hooks and the Real Deal.” When Hooks (John...