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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...dismay of health experts, diabetes is becoming a global problem. In the next couple of decades, the prevalence of diabetes is expected to triple in Africa, the eastern Mediterranean, the Middle East and Southeast Asia, to double in the western Pacific and to nearly double in Europe. With an estimated 33 million cases, India has the most people with diabetes; China has 23 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Why So Many Of Us Are Getting Diabetes | 12/8/2003 | See Source »

...residents’ dismay, many of the alarms have sounded at the time when most students are in the building—between midnight and breakfast...

Author: By Joshua D. Gottlieb, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Adams Loses Sleep Over False Fire Alarms | 11/10/2003 | See Source »

...evidence seemed sufficient to the Administration. Washington charged Iran with violating its NPT commitments and insisted that the agency take Iran's noncompliance to the U.N. Security Council, which could impose punitive sanctions. To Tehran's dismay, the international community sided with the U.S. "The Iranians are behaving in a way that leads people to think they have something to hide," said a British official. The IAEA agreed unanimously in September to give Iran until Oct. 31 to explain itself or face possible U.N. sanctions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Will Make Them Stop? | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

...agriculture." These CSAs, also known as subscription farms, sell shares of their harvest in advance directly to the consumer. They involve shareholder families through regular newsletters, potluck parties and even farm work. The lure is not just fresher, cheaper veggies but also a sense of belonging. Thus the Skinners' dismay didn't last. A score of shareholders showed up to weed. "When you help the people who grow your food, it is spiritually as well as physically nourishing," says Lisa Wallender, one of the volunteers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fresh Off The Farm | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

Much to my dismay, just above the Crimson article covering the panel on sexual violence appeared a feature article in which Harvard students were asked what they hid from their parents for Parent’s Weekend. Joe K. Green ’05 replied “The dead hooker in the closet” (News, “Roving Reporter...

Author: By Diane L. Rosenfeld, | Title: Roving Reporter's 'Dead Hooker' Joke Offensive | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

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