Word: excessive
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...Lycra outfit with lots of jewels and feathers and stuff.” She adds that it “lit up like a Christmas tree.”But for Poehler, one of the comedy world’s biggest rising stars, that kind of wild exuberance and excess is nothing new.BRIDE AND GROOM“Blades of Glory,” out March 30, features “Saturday Night Live” star Poehler along with her husband Will Arnett (of “Arrested Development” fame), Jon Heder of “Napoleon Dynamite...
...Nonetheless, the latest study offers a backward sort of good news, suggesting that intense menopausal symptoms may be a kind of early warning system, since women who suffer the most also tend to harbor more risk factors for heart disease, from high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes to excess weight. "If you have moderate to severe hot flashes, then that should be a signal to check your risk factors for heart disease," says Rossouw...
This is the way of financial innovations, which tend to be used to excess at least once until people figure out what the true risks are. It's also why those on the financial cutting edge (like hedge funds) are often barred from pitching their products to anyone but the wealthy. That mortgage lenders were allowed to flog their negative-amortization, adjustable-rate mortgages and balloon loans without restriction does not reflect well on either Congress or state regulators. Now Congress is likely to do something about subprime lending...
...found that Glut2 is expressed unexpectedly early in the embryonic development of mice, exposing the embryo to the abnormal amount of glucose present in the mother’s blood. In previous studies, Joslin researchers have found that birth defects occur because when the embryonic cells break down the excess glucose, genes that control essential developmental processes are inhibited. But even though Loeken found that diabetic mice lacking the Glut2 transporter were less likely to have offspring with birth defects than those with functioning Glut2, the study also found that embryos were less likely to survive if they lacked Glut2...
...Louisiana susceptible enough to naturaldisasters? Now, 18 months after Katrina, it turns out that some of the state's coastal cypress forests, which help protect against storm surges by absorbing excess wind and water, are being clear-cut to make mulch, the soil stabilizer found in many gardens. Removing these trees could aggravate the impact of the next big storm. "People who garden should be disturbed that critical forests are being shredded just to end up in their flower beds," says Sierra Club's Orli Cotel. Chuck Corbitt, CEO of Corbitt Manufacturing, a top mulch supplier, told TIME that...