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Doctors believe that maternal diabetes increases children's obesity risk through what's referred to as metabolic imprinting. The idea is that outside of other genetic and environmental risk factors for obesity, children appear to become metabolically imprinted, or pre-programmed, for obesity by being overfed in the womb - a direct result of the mother's high blood sugar. "As we have more people with diabetes and gestational diabetes during pregnancy I think the importance of additional risk factors for obesity increases," says Hillier. "And if there is an alteration going on to program the child for obesity I think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mom's Diabetes, Kid Obesity Linked | 8/28/2007 | See Source »

...hoping their cause will benefit from consumers' recent green awakening: the WWF has hooked up with the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), an international group that promotes good forest management and gives well-managed forests and their products a stamp of approval. This fall, the first FSC-certified corks will appear on the U.S. market from Willamette Valley Vineyards in Oregon. The tactic may very well appeal to screwcap-averse American wine drinkers. In a 2004 study, 62% of Americans surveyed said "cheap" was the first word that came to mind when they thought about screwcapped wines. Americans - along with Canadians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting a Cap on Wine Corks | 8/22/2007 | See Source »

...rebuild the internal portfolio management team so that it now covers five distinct areas. HMC has hired managers from the industry to head these teams, restructured its group of external managers, and improved its risk-analysis capability, El-Erian said. El-Erian said that the changes he has enacted appear to have been effective in establishing stability for the largest university endowment in the world...

Author: By Nathan C. Strauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Endowment Swells to $34.9B | 8/21/2007 | See Source »

...resign after a bag containing cash totaling some $60,000 was discovered in her office bathroom. Her resignation followed other revelations regarding bribery and false billing in government contracts, as well as accustions that Kirchner's administration has been tampering with official inflation and unemployment figures to make both appear lower than they are in reality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Argentina Cries Foul Against Chavez | 8/21/2007 | See Source »

...already attended seven Democratic debates, along with 19 candidate forums. Of the remaining 2007 debates in which Obama will participate, five are so-called sanctioned events, endorsed by the Democratic National Committee on behalf of the candidates, in an attempt to limit the total number. Obama also plans to appear at a debate on Sept. 9 in Florida sponsored by Univision, plus two December debates in Iowa. Plouffe said that the campaign is open to additional debates in late December, right before the earliest caucus and primary voting begins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama: Enough with the Debates! | 8/18/2007 | See Source »

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