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...study by U.S. researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Cancer Institute found that overweight adults had a slightly lower risk of death than their normal-weight peers, largely because they were less likely to die from a variety of diseases, including Alzheimer's, infections and lung disease. Another study in 2005, published in Obesity, analyzed data on more than 11,000 Canadian adults for over 12 years and found that people who were overweight were 17% less likely to die than those of normal weight. Underweight adults, by contrast, had a 73% higher risk...
Despite the College administration’s new control over the fund, Hysen said the UC still hopes to have a role in its disbursement...
...College will reinstate the Student Life Fund after a semester-long absence, but the College administration will now have greater control of the fund’s distribution...
...think it is unquestionably good that it is back,” UC Vice President Eric N. Hysen ’11 said. “Obviously I would prefer that the UC would control the allocation of the fund...
...half decades of bloodshed, Rajapaksa needs "to do something that no president has done so far," says Terrence Purasinghe, a senior lecturer at the Sri Jayawardenapura University in Colombo. "He will have to bring the minority Tamils into a position of political power, where they have some sense of control and not controlled by the center." Rajapaksa pledged to look at power sharing during the campaign, and Sri Lanka's Tamils are waiting to see whether those promises will be fulfilled. And the standoff outside the Cinnamon Lakeside suggests that the country's political turmoil may be far from over...