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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Artificial pancreas. Responding to shifting levels of sugar in the blood, the pancreas constantly adjusts its secretion of insulin, delivering more during meals, when larger quantities are needed, less during exercise or sleep. Daily insulin injections can correct a deficiency, but are not the whole answer: often the insulin level is above or below what it should be, and the blood's sugar fluctuates wildly, probably aggravating the diabetic's other problems...
...James Schlesinger said that the U.S. has met its pledge to the 20-nation International Energy Agency in Paris to cut consumption of petroleum by 1 million bbl. daily. But the reduction has been caused largely by the lack of gasoline, which Schlesinger's department is struggling to correct...
...Selwyn R. Cudjoe, assistant professor of Afro-American Studies, says the Afro-American perspective is worthy of special scholarly emphasis to correct historical distortions created by centuries of scholars with singularly Euro-American values. Cudjoe adds that if Afro-American Studies were not an autonomous department, it could not decide its own curriculum, nor offer tenured posts to its staff, and it would lose its unique perspective...
...working conditions. Attempts to organize workers have failed repeatedly, and organizers have said the failures result because Stevens frightens and physically intimidates workers thinking about unionizing. Observers also have suggested that Stevens finds it cheaper to pay fines doled out for violations than to take the steps necessary to correct work situations cited as dangerous...
...from a walk, and looking every bit the compulsive suburbanite sometimes mirrored in his column. Skow spent two days with the Baker family. He toured the island, shared the view from a widow's walk atop the house, and discovered that his 17-year impression of Baker was correct. Reports Skow: "He is not a performer. He is a man who lives very much inside his own head, a thoughtful conversationalist who would just as soon listen as talk...