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...longest-term study of its kind, researchers pitted two popular diets head to head - a low-fat American Heart Association-style diet and a carb-controlled Mediterranean diet, each combined with regular physical activity - in a population of overweight patients who had Type 2 diabetes...
...years, the U.S. response to the junta's ironfisted rule has been an arsenal of economic sanctions. But Webb's confab with junta head General Than Shwe, though not an official visit, may signal a shift in U.S. policy. Earlier this year, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton acknowledged that U.S. sanctions have done nothing to moderate the junta's behavior, in part because nations like China and India have poured investment into Burma. After his mission, Webb told reporters, "Isolation is only preventing [Burma] from developing economically and politically...
...still think fantasy-dork mayors are a head scratcher, check out some of the fantasy-related cottage industries that have started up or expanded during the Great Recession. One of the hottest fantasy offshoots is in the trophy business, which is mind-boggling: on the unnecessary-expenditure scale, a keepsake for the winner of a fantasy league is off the charts. One site, TheUltimateTrophy.com just shipped an $800 prize to a fantasy-league commissioner. "Part of the jollies of fantasy sports is you get to stick it in the face of your buddies," says Tom Harkins, president of FantasySportsTrophies.com whose...
...since 1989, more than any Democrat. Republican Senator Mike Enzi has received a greater share of his campaign contributions from health- industry PACs than any other senator. Admittedly, insurance and pharmaceutical companies should have a place at the table. But they shouldn’t be sitting at the head. I doubt that six “co-opted” hired guns can follow the money trail to common ground for the common good...
...When asked by TIME about the possibility that the Arctic Sea was carrying a secret cargo, Vladimir Voronov, deputy head of Oy Solchart Management - the Helsinki-based, Russian-run company that operates the ship - replied, "I don't know anything about a secret cargo. We're just a simple shipping firm, and from what we understand, our ship was hijacked...