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...Unfortunately, that ability seems to cause insulin resistance when food is plentiful. In other words, says Dr. Peter Nathanielsz, director of the Center for Women's Health Research at New York University, "you come out into the world--at least the developed world--and there is no shortage of cheap, fast food. Your thrifty metabolism has prepared you for the wrong future...
Contrary to what the White House would have you believe, the Bush administration has not committed itself to the fight against global AIDS—far from it. Indeed, the administration’s trade policy exacerbates the epidemic by limiting the accessibility of cheap generic AIDS medications, putting pharmaceutical company profits before the lives of the world’s poorest...
...rebounding or, at the very least, the battle against them has stalled. Schistosomiasis is just one example. Diseases like tuberculosis and hepatitis B, which could have been curbed by a more public-minded health-care system, are now spreading largely unchecked. China has had a cheap vaccine for hepatitis B available since 1985. But local health bureaus were loath to offer it free of charge, because the vaccine was a crucial source of income. As a result, 10% of Chinese are now carriers of the potentially fatal liver disease, compared with less than 1% of Americans. Even today, China...
...student population lives contradicts the student center concept. Hilles might be expensive and underutilized as a library, and a new-fangled student center on the top floors might beat Loker in the space and useful facilities fields, but I doubt that the far-away facility would be either cheap to build or overcrowded once in place...
...slap quotas on imports of Chinese bras, nightgowns and knitwear, Beijing was quick to fire back. It postponed a delegation that was going to the U.S. to buy commodities, and the U.S. ambassador in Beijing was twice summoned for official chidings. An editorial in the China Daily derided "the cheap political points the Bush Administration scored by touting trade protectionism...