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...family history of diabetes is a very strong risk factor. Obesity is also a very dramatic risk factor - 80 percent of people with Type 2 diabetes are obese. A diet that?s low in carbohydrates and fiber, or high in fat can also increase risk. Finally, an inactive lifestyle is also a factor...
...photographs of gray-faced politicians, young children who are being indoctrinated by them, diners, an automobile factory and an actual television. The accompanying quote, “There is an abundance of evidence to sustain the conclusion that the indulgence in acts of sexual perversion weakens the moral fiber to a degree that he is not suitable for a position of responsibility,” accompanies these sterile images and reveals the underlying tensions that hide behind the false front of serenity in the photographs...
...TREES? It's no coincidence that several prominent tech companies have named themselves for trees. The image of strength, shelter and growth helps temper the synthetic, volatile reality of computer chips and fiber optics, says David Placek, the head of Lexicon Branding, a corporate-naming agency in Sausalito, Calif. Of course, some trees weather storms better than others. Here is a guide to the tech jungle, with analysis by Placek...
...sure, what Welch and other savvy CEOs are defending is not just any old information-technology spending. Nobody believes anymore, for example, in unlimited demand for fiber-optic cable and switches and bandwidth. And even among makers of efficiency-enhancing software, spending is slowing. Oracle, for example, was predicting 30% growth in earnings this year but revised that to announce that first-quarter growth would be less than 10%. Says Katrina Roche, chief of marketing for i2 Technologies, an e-business software maker based in Dallas: "Nobody is willing to blindly invest in technology the way they were 12 months...
...that connects to the Net over copper has a typical download speed of 56 kilobits--or 56,000 bits--per second, at which rate it would take nearly 10 minutes to download a three-minute song. By contrast, a modem connected to a TV cable that feeds into a fiber-optic loop could claim that tune in under a minute. Yet even today only about 6% of U.S. households have cable modems or digital subscriber lines, which carry compressed data over copper wires at broadband speed. But that hasn't stopped carriers from blanketing the country with high-bandwidth networks...