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Earlier this week, another group of researchers, from Columbia University, reported in the journal Annals of Neurology that spikes in blood-glucose levels affect a region of the brain that forms memories and can lead to faster memory decline in people with diabetes...
...work done that we need.”Harvard coach Tim Murphy was pleased with his team’s win, however he also noted the need for hard work and improvement before Harvard’s next meet.“We’ve got to train faster and train a little bit better than we have,” Murphy said. “We’re in a fairly good spot right now, but there’s a lot of work left to be done.”HARVARD 188, NAVY 112Harvard?...
...demand in China holds up over the next few months. But even if growth slows further, most of the biggest players in shipping are likely to survive. According to Oliviero Baccelli, a transportation economist at Bocconi University in Milan, that's because shippers have cut costs far faster and deeper than many of their counterparts in other industries. Shipping also enjoys a certain stability during tough times thanks to the enduring presence of family-run companies, and gradual consolidation over the past couple of decades has winnowed out the weak. "You have families who have hundreds of years of experience...
...from announcing a 4 trillion renminbi ($587 billion) stimulus package, repeatedly lowering interest rates and taking substantive moves to bolster the property market and encourage consumer spending. "They've done everything right so far and very fast," says one western diplomat in Beijing. "Often it's been bigger and faster than other countries like Germany, and they aren't afraid to advertise that fact in the papers and on CCTV...
...traditions are set by Scripture or laced with superstition; others are accidents elevated into ceremony, habits in party clothes. A Woody Allen character viewed tradition as "the illusion of permanence," but I think that's exactly wrong; our traditions are a ballast against inventions and innovations that blow us faster into a future we have not prepared for. (See TIME's Person of the Year, People Who Mattered, and more...