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...fuel for the body. You can get your glucose levels tested at a doctor's office or at home with a device called a glucometer. What you're looking for is a reading measured in milligrams of glucose per deciliter of blood (or, on some glucometers, in millimoles per liter). Anyone whose glucose level before breakfast--the fasting level--is 126 mg/dL (7 mmol/L) or higher is considered diabetic. A normal fasting level runs anywhere from 65 mg/dL to just under 100 mg/dL (3.6 mmol/L to 5.6 mmol/L...
Thus, we got knock-out freshman violinist Stefan Jackiw (remeber that name), as well as some seriously glamorous Chopin played by campus celebrity Berenika Zakrzewski ’04, in a sparkling full-out ball gown and a liter of hairspray...
...Warburton’s favorite memories since joining the Simpsons family came when Rolling Stones member Keith Richards visited the studio to record a voice-over: “When Keith Richards came he wanted a two-liter bottle of orange juice and a bottle of vodka, which he drank. It was awesome...
...sips the drink becomes instantly Turkish - sprouting a moustache, cooking stuffed grape leaves and bursting into rousing national song - the launch coincided with the heavy-handed seizure of Turkish soldiers by U.S. troops in northern Iraq. Analysts put Cola Turka's share at around 10% of the 1.2 billion-liter local market. Manufacturer Ulker is aiming for 25%; Coca-Cola now takes just over half and Pepsi around 40%. Are the U.S. producers scared? Maybe - they just cut their prices by up to 10%. - By Pelin Turgut Orange Again France Télécom offered over $7 billion...
...against A-B. Analysts say a German acquisition wouldn't come as a surprise. And Denmark's Carlsberg has been nibbling around the German market for more than a decade. While the big get bigger, the small will get smaller. "Microbreweries, meaning small operations generating less than 500,000 liters per year, and especially the new generation of brew-pubs, are still a healthy business in Germany," says Ralf Knabe, an analyst with Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein. "They account for most of Germany's breweries in number terms and can probably maintain their independence, but they generate just...