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...another set of studies, Dr. Geroge Daly, a professor at Children's Hospital, will use excess embryos from IVF and remove stem cells from them to study blood diseases such as sickle cell anemia and bone marrow disorders. These will not be tailored to individual patients, but could provide valuable information about how these conditions work...
...primed for diabetes. "It's not simply that Western food is causing diabetes but that different body types, influenced by genes, respond to the same food differently," says Dr. William Hsu of the Joslin Diabetes Center. With no famine, these genes continue to convert food into glucose and fat. Excess glucose levels build up gradually in the blood, and insulin, which normally keeps glucose levels in check, can't keep up. After years of this metabolic treadmill, diabetes can develop...
Gingo said the most common charge was for excess trash left in rooms, but he noted that the amount of trash students have left behind “has shrunk significantly in the past five years.” He attributed the decreased amount of trash to greater awareness by students of the option to donate items to Habitat for Humanity and the efforts made by Yard and House personnel to remind students to dispose of or donate their unwanted items...
...those comments that push Moulitsas into suicidal hyperbole? They tumble in at the rate of about 12,000 a day. You don't generate that kind of following by responding to rhetorical excess with equanimity and reason. You get that kind of following by responding to rhetorical excess with more rhetorical excess. Or, as Moulitsas puts it later, "You can't take pen into a battle with someone who's wielding a machine...
...production is certainly a sumptuous confection. Given access to the grounds and interiors of Versailles, Coppola captures the splendor of aristocratic excess, aided artfully by the work of production designer KK Barrett and costume designer Milena Canonero. The quiet riot of pastels and ruffles hint at Marie's isolation from the shouts of revolution in the Paris streets. Dunst is a living porcelain doll, dimpled and sweet. Her Marie may be ignorant of the great roiling world outside, but her job was not to be spokeswoman for the masses. It was to provide a male heir for the throne...