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...lose as much weight as other patients after the surgery. Of the 310 patients in the study, 92% of those without diabetes were able to lose more than 40% of their excess weight - statistically, that's considered a successful procedure - while only 79% of diabetes patients were able to drop that much weight after one year. In both cases, doctors used the same surgical technique, which involves permanently sectioning off a small pouch from the stomach and connecting it directly to the intestines, which forces patients to eat less and allows food to bypass the rest of the stomach...
...office will also be holding its first-ever “Senior Month,” starting yesterday and lasting until Oct. 15, with special events and drop-in hours targeted at helping seniors learn how to search for jobs...
...Though gifts to the University as a whole continued to increase, as they have for the past few years, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences saw a drop in donations from $205 million in fiscal year 2007 to $191 million this year...
...Obama is probably wise to ignore the liberals who keep begging him to drop his air of unflappability and start taking Republican scalps. White America already embraces black celebrities, even "flashy" ones. But it has never really warmed up to an angry...
...last fiscal year. While the returns fell far short of last year’s exceptional 23 percent growth, the gains still compare favorably given that they come during a bear market that has seen the S&P 500 index, a standard baseline for stock-market performance, drop more than 13 percent over the same period. The 8.6 percent gain puts Harvard comfortably in the top 5 percent of peer investment groups as measured by the Trust Universe Comparison Service and far outpaces the group’s median return of -4.4 percent over the year. Financial markets have declined...