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...Assistant Professor of Medicine Simin Liu, the senior author in the WHS findings, said he believed that the studies differed because of varying definitions of what it means to be overweight. For the WHS study, a person was labeled overweight if her Body Mass Index (BMI), a measure of total body fat, was above 25—the lower limit of the overweight category as defined by the National Institutes of Health...
...Liu said he believed that the results of the NHS study would mirror the results of the WHS study—indicating that only overweight and obese people would benefit from magnesium intake—if the two studies had both used the standard 25 BMI measure...
...shares of China Life Insurance, the country's largest insurer, are up 64% since their Dec. 18 debut. Gold-mining company Fujian Zijin Mining Industry saw its stock price surge 73% in its first day of trading on Dec. 23. "The market is getting hot on IPOs," says Yang Liu, managing director of Atlantis Investment Management in Hong Kong. But she quickly adds a cautionary note: "We have to be extremely selective...
...With so many more Chinese companies poised to sell stock in Hong Kong, investors will have plenty of new opportunities to play IPO roulette. One risk, though, is that this additional supply could put a damper on share prices. Liu of Atlantis warns that investors should stick to IPOs of big, stable companies that have solid earnings growth. "You have to be sure you know about the company and have done your homework," she says. Otherwise, you're likely to end up with a painful case of dotcom d?j?...
...controversy, it could be difficult for a creative work itself to stir up the culture. In 1994 Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction generated volumes of discussion about movie violence. In 2003 Kill Bill Vol. 1--which made Pulp look like Toy Story--landed nearly as softly as villainess Lucy Liu did when she collapsed bloodily into the snow in its climax. Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, involving a theory that Mary Magdalene may have been Jesus' wife and the mother of his child, intrigued readers and sold millions of copies, but it was ABC News that really took...