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...current study does not make clear, however, whether diet alone can reduce blood sugar enough to eliminate the use of diabetes medication or whether it is even advisable to forgo medication at all. Participants in the new study were kept off drugs when their A1C levels - a measurement that indicates a patient's blood-sugar levels over the previous three months - were below 7%, the standard cutoff for what is considered controlled blood sugar. But "we don't know for sure if people with A1C levels under 7% still need to be on drugs," says Greene. "The research just hasn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Diet Can Help Avoid Diabetes Drugs | 9/1/2009 | See Source »

...turns out that Tom Jehn, the Expos program director, tweets under @trjehn. For someone whose job centers on clear and cogent writing, his tweets are a tad ironic...

Author: By Liyun Jin | Title: Expos, Gen Ed directors on Twitter | 9/1/2009 | See Source »

...recent U.S. takeout of Taliban big cheese Baitullah Mehsud has predictably fired up these drone proponents, who see it as a clear-cut success story and a case for upping the number of UAVs. What’s more surprising, perhaps, is that the counterarguments have been so few and so thin. It’s the specifics, rather than the supremacy of the drone approach itself, that have come under attack. Pakistanis decry U.S. counterterrorist strikes in their country as a “violation of sovereignty” (apparently, contracting out assassination missions to third parties isn?...

Author: By Jessica A. Sequeira | Title: Enter the Drone | 9/1/2009 | See Source »

...application wastes no time making clear that your swipe cards will not work in Houses if you are not approved for J-Term. So if you're hoping to crash with your more J-Term eligible roommate, you'll have to live with the inconvenience of calling them every time you need...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks | Title: J-Term Application Up | 9/1/2009 | See Source »

...While Germany was divided, the communists had their own country; in the West, they were outlawed. Official doctrine in East Germany declared the neo-Nazis nonexistent. In West Germany, far-right candidates seldom gained enough traction to clear the 5% hurdle in any state election to enter parliament. And when they did, they usually imploded shortly after taking their seats and always failed to get re-elected to a follow-on term. (Read "The March to the Far Right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Small Parties Gain in German State Votes | 9/1/2009 | See Source »

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