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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 »

...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 »

...Even from the basic facts, without assumptions, it is clear that this was not just piracy," says Mikhail Voitenko, editor of the Russian maritime journal Sovfrakht, which has been tracking unusual incidents on the high seas for decades. "I've never seen anything like this. These are some of the most heavily policed waters in the world. You cannot just hide a ship there for weeks without government involvement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Was Russia's 'Hijacked' Ship Carrying Missiles to the Mideast? | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

...that Iran has partly cooperated with the agency on allowing access to its nuclear facilities. However, the IAEA also reported that it "does not consider that Iran has adequately addressed the substance of the issues." U.S. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said in response to the report, "It seems clear that Iran continues to not cooperate fully and continues its enrichment activities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pressuring Iran on Nukes: Would a Gas Embargo Help? | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

...Olmert double-billed for trips abroad on behalf of various charities and public bodies, including the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, and received tens of thousands of dollars in cash payments from Long Island, New York, financier Morris Talansky. Olmert vigorously denies the charges and says he will fight to clear his name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olmert's Indictment: Secular Justice or a Sign from God? | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

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