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...your meal happens to be junk food - say, a processed bun with a cheap beef patty, French fries and a Coke - the rush of sugar causes something called "post-prandial hyperglycemia": a big spike in blood-sugar levels. Poor diet in the long-term leads to hypertension and buildup of gunk in blood vessels that increases heart-attack risk. But there are short-term effects too. "People don't understand this, even most physicians," says O'Keefe. Tissue becomes inflamed, just as it does when infected. Blood vessels constrict. Free radicals, unstable molecules that cause cell damage and are thought...
...somewhat frustrated, on the sidelines as the Army and Marine Corps has done the heavy lifting in the two wars now under way. Some Pentagon officials welcomed the new NIE as evidence that the intelligence community is not tied to ideology, as some critics argued was true during the buildup to the Iraq...
...Reagan's own popularity - even among many Democrats - owed less to his specific policies (tax cuts, arms buildup) than to his overall success in restoring Americans' national pride and optimism. If the Carter era had been associated with domestic economic woes and a string of geopolitical defeats that culminated in the Iran hostage crisis, Reagan managed, almost as soon as he took office, to convince the public that a new "morning in America" had broken, by getting tough with U.S. adversaries on the global stage...
...nationalist rebels, the UIC and separatist Ethiopian rebels from the Ogaden National Liberation Front. In July the U.N. Monitoring Group on Somalia, based in Nairobi, said Eritrea was supplying Somali insurgents with "huge" amounts of arms. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has expressed serious concern about a military buildup along the Eritrea-Ethiopia border, where the U.N. has had peacekeepers since 2001. In Somalia, a small African Union peacekeeping force of 1,600 Ugandans is charged with keeping the factions apart. On Nov. 23, the U.S. State Department said it was committed to resolving the "political and humanitarian crises...
...Edwards—it was evident that the issue itself was unimportant; the focus was on how these top candidates would navigate their way out of this loaded question. It was nothing short of theatrical. Sadly, all the important issues following this melodrama lost their poignancy. From the troop buildup in Iraq to energy issues, the candidate with the best response was the simply one with the most charisma. From the candidates’ namedropping to their masturbatory rants about the depth and breadth of their political experience, there was a deep lack of authenticity. Fortunately, the discussion took...