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...better at lowering blood glucose levels in patients with diabetes than a high-fiber diet. Patients in the study who were assigned a low-glycemic diet reduced their blood glucose levels, as measured by the amount of hemoglobin A1C in their blood, by 0.50%, compared to an 0.18% drop in similar patients eating a diet high in cereal fiber. (See the top 10 food trends...
...Canada lost 71,000 jobs in November, most of them in the province of Ontario, whose manufacturing sector has traditionally been a primary source of growth and prosperity. The single biggest monthly drop in a quarter-century is unlikely to be an isolated incident, and compares against 533,000 job losses for the same period...
...music to the ears of most New Yorkers: when the pilot study began in the Bronx, inspectors found active rat signs on 3,100 of the borough's 39,000 properties. Preliminary results now show that 1,250 of those properties are rat-free. That's a 40% drop-off in infestations...
...department is looking into “how we can basically get programs or faculty interested in students studying abroad so it becomes more a part of the undergraduate program.” The department has also altered its requirements, allowing thesis writers in the class of 2010 to drop one of their two junior tutorials. “We’ve been trying to think through how we can make it easier, especially for thesis writers, to go abroad,” Welch says. —Staff writer Noah S. Rayman can be reached at nrayman@fas.harvard.edu...
...including former Secretary of the Interior James G. Watt and many members of the Bush administration, “who have been opposed to good stewardship for the environment,” he said. Page also said he was worried that with the impending economic crisis and the drop in oil prices, “the government will not move as fast as possible” to reduce carbon emissions. “This has to go ahead regardless,” he said. Lyman Antolini expressed similar sentiments in her Nov. 30 sermon at St. James Episcopal Church...