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...massive amount of insulin to mop up the excess. Soon enough, however, blood glucose levels plummet to the point where our brains may feel woozy, we become excessively hungry and are driven to eat again. Complex carbohydrates, on the other hand, particularly those rich in fiber, do not elicit the same kind of spike-and-crash response...
...week, usually late at night, stopping at precinct houses to see who's in the holding cells and why, and to make sure his police are doing their job. He has made a policy of doling out groceries to cops as a way of curbing their temptation to elicit bribes, but that doesn't mean he's always in a benevolent mood. When he finds a cop drunk on duty, Duterte admits, he personally doles out a thrashing...
...vulnerable: a cast. The latter was the result of a media shoving match that occurred upon Ryder's Monday arrival, during which she was bumped by a camera. The day's session was adjourned so the actress could seek medical attention. Alas, her broken arm did not seem to elicit the court's sympathy. Despite Ryder's plea of innocence, a Saks Fifth Avenue security guard testified that he caught her last December with a passel of stolen goods, and the judge concluded there was enough evidence to proceed with a trial...
...brought in from the CIA to re-invent the bureau's security system. "But background investigations should be robust enough to get a hint that there are issues that require deeper examination." Senser says he intends to deploy more aggressive background investigators, with experience in conducting probing interviews that elicit indications of psychological and integrity problems. In the past, background investigators, generally retired FBI agents working on contract, rarely went beyond the subject's hand-picked character references. This practice was sharply criticized by the Webster commission, which also faulted the background unit's checklist mentality and failure to analyze...
...Terror, Nepal's 10,000 Maoist guerrillas have decided, is the key to power. When they first launched their revolt six years ago, the rebels took care to elicit public support with popular campaigns against corrupt officials, alcoholism, drug use and chauvinism. Dismissed by the outside world as poorly armed curios from another time, their message that the elected government had succeeded only in lining its own pockets since the end of absolute monarchy in 1990 resonated in the Himalayan hills. But lately, the "people's rebels" have embarked on an altogether bloodier course, inspired?according to a former rebel...