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...hard to say. Certainly, Summers seemed to recognize in his remarks last Thursday that the mayor drives a hard bargain, claiming that the housing development was a testimony to Menino’s “capacity to twist arms.” Nevertheless, Summers went on to explain exactly what it will take for Harvard and Boston to get along. The answer, it seems: money. As Summers put it, “It was once famously said that it takes a village to raise a child. I would say also that it takes capital to build a village...
...never defend, I never explain,” he says...
Lots of doctors will tell you that the reason for the explosion is obvious: Americans are eating too much and exercising too little, and much of the world is following our bad example. There is no question that excessive weight increases your risk of becoming diabetic. But that explains only part of the problem. Diabetes has a strong genetic component, and scientists are beginning to suspect that certain evolutionary factors, as well as your mother's metabolic or nutritional status during pregnancy, may predispose you to develop diabetes. That may explain why Indians from the subcontinent often become diabetic after...
...Type 1 disease has a strong genetic predisposition, but that alone doesn't explain why people get it. Researchers believe that an environmental trigger is also necessary. Among the prime suspects are viral infections like the Coxsackie B virus. The theory is that the immune system gets fired up to ward off a viral infection, then turns its attention to pancreatic islet cells because a protein on the cell surface is chemically similar to the virus...
...that's not all. "We have been patient, but our patience is wearing thin," said Evans. So is the President's approval rating in textile states, for it is hard to see what else could explain the new quotas. "U.S. imports from China," Evans said, "are five times greater than our exports." The illiteracy here is the assumption that imports are bad and that the purpose of trade between nations is to expand exports--a fallacy that was exploded, oh, sometime in the 1830s. The point of free trade is to allow economies to specialize in what they do best...