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...every day that scientists uncover an unexpected new role for an old, familiar body part. That's why a paper published in the current issue of Cell is generating so much buzz. A team led by Dr. Gerard Karsenty, chairman of the department of genetics and development at Columbia University Medical Center, found that the skeleton plays a powerful role in the regulation of blood sugar and fat deposits. The discovery, made through an elegant series of experiments in mice, could have important implications for treating and preventing type 2 diabetes and obesity - two conditions that are exploding around...
...mind that he spent much of the mission so violently space sick that NASA wags informally added a whole new category, labeled "Garn," to the sliding scale used for diagnosing nausea in orbit. Then Congressman (now Senator) Bill Nelson of Florida spent six days in space aboard the shuttle Columbia in January of 1986, the same month Challenger blew up, causing NASA to decide that maybe space flight was a risky enough job that it indeed ought best be left to the professionals...
...poll tabbed Penn to finish second in the league, while the Crimson is picked third. The Quakers and Harvard each earned one of the two first-place votes not garnered by the Bulldogs, while 2006 co-champ Princeton ranks fourth in the preseason poll. Cornell is fifth and Columbia sixth, while Brown, just two years removed from an Ivy title, is the media’s pick to finish seventh. Dartmouth rounds out the picks in last place...
...correctly and consistently interpreting privacy laws in an appropriate fashion. "The bottom line is that administrators and clinicians have much more discretion than they may believe with regard to sharing information," says Dr. Paul Appelbaum, director of the Division of Psychiatry, Law, and Ethics, Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University. Although schools have read and re-read FERPA ad nauseam this summer, Appelbaum says he wants clear-cut guidelines from the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services. "Otherwise," he says, "we are likely to continue to see divergent interpretations on different campuses, often driven...
...Chinese executives were in New York City for a week of business-school classes. Even before economist Glenn Hubbard--dean of Columbia Business School and former chief of President Bush's Council of Economic Advisers--finished teaching on Monday morning, it was clear that his students had done their homework...