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...focused on people in the 25-to-74 age group and evaluated five different risk factors for cardiovascular disease: blood pressure, cholesterol, smoking history, obesity and diabetes. To be considered at low risk, subjects had to have a blood pressure reading of 120/80 mm Hg or lower without the aid of medication and a cholesterol level below 200 mg/dL, also without drugs. They had to be nonsmokers or at least former smokers, not be overweight or obese, and never have been diagnosed with diabetes. "From a prevention point of view, it's important that Americans achieve as many of these...
...stamps in the U.S. began in May 1939, when unemployed factory worker Mabel McFiggin collected stamps to buy surplus butter, eggs and prunes in Rochester, N.Y. McFiggin was the first person to take advantage of the experimental program, designed to improve on Depression-era commodity-distribution systems developed to aid the needy and unload surplus wheat and other products bought by the government to support farm prices. Food stamps originally came in two colors: recipients bought orange stamps, which could be used for any kind of food, and they were given half that amount in free blue stamps, which could...
...international community seems to agree: A World Bank delegation visited Zimbabwe earlier this year to assess whether to resume aid delivery (verdict: yes, but not too much); the International Monetary Fund has dispersed $510 million in aid this month; and individual donations amounting to another $500 million have come in from the U.S., Britain and other Western powers...
...fiscal year 2014, Yale unveiled a series of budget-slashing measures similar to those that Harvard has announced over the past year, running the gamut from construction slowdowns to reductions in faculty hiring to trimming travel, entertainment, and office expenses.“With the exception of financial aid, no area of expenditure will be immune from close scrutiny,” Levin wrote. Until markets improve or donations are secured, Yale will not embark upon any new construction projects, he wrote. Renovations of two residential colleges and the Yale University Art Gallery will continue as planned, though, as will...
...plan's most combative opponents, Wilson emerged as something of a hero. His Facebook page registered 1,200 comments, many of them strongly supporting his outburst and criticizing him only for backing down. A Facebook user named Bugs wrote, "We need to find an antidote to the Obama Kool-aid...