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When foods like turkey, bread and caramel are heated, proteins bind with sugars, causing the surface to darken and, in some cases, turn soft and sticky. In the 1970s, biochemists hypothesized that the same reaction might occur in the bodies of people suffering from diabetes, as excess glucose combined with...
Farther afield and five years after the war, other coalition members watch Iraq through a more complex lens. Gratitude for defeating Saddam back then is tempered today by new interests and demands. Turkey's Islamist government is keen to revive relations with its old trading partner. Saudi Arabia and Bahrain...
As a result, life expectancy in the U.S., which was 66.6 years for men in 1960 and 73.1 years for women, had by 1994 reached 72.3 and 79 for people born in that year. The death rate from heart attacks has dropped 30% in the past three decades. Treatments for...
The medical breakthroughs that have already had the deepest impact are those that enhance sight and mobility. Nationwide, more than a million cataract procedures are performed each year to correct clouding in the lens of the eye. Until 20 years ago, the main treatment was the removal of the patient...
We were delighted to read Richard Stengel's reply [NATION, July 22] to Robert Putnam's 1995 essay "Bowling Alone," in which Putnam asserted that Americans' traditional engagement in civic activities has been in a 25-year decline. We couldn't agree more with Stengel! There is, indeed, a hidden...