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...diabetes patients. Critics of the glycemic-index concept note that the way the body processes food - and the time that it takes to break it down - is affected by myriad factors, including how food is cooked, in what combinations it's eaten, and even what time of day a person eats. Al dente pasta, for example, has a lower glycemic index than fully cooked pasta, and for some people, eating later in the day raises the glycemic index of foods that would be lower if eaten earlier. Dr. David Katz, director of the Yale University Prevention Research Center argues, therefore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study Boosts Low-Glycemic Diet | 12/16/2008 | See Source »

...While Schwartz and Biggers held a 122 -person lead in Facebook group membership, Flores and McLeod won crucial endorsements from student groups like the Dems and the Harvard Republican Club. The Dems have now endorsed the winning candidate for the sixth consecutive year...

Author: By Alex M. Mcleese, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Flores-McLeod Triumph In Close Race | 12/16/2008 | See Source »

...single three-hour period - to buy postage stamps using international reply coupons. This strategy, Ponzi promised, enabled one to purchase postage at European currencies' lower fixed rates before redeeming them in U.S dollars at higher values. "For instance," Zuckoff explained in a Dec. 15 article for FORTUNE, "a person could buy 66 International Reply Coupons in Rome for the equivalent of $1. Those same 66 coupons would cost $3.30 in Boston," where Ponzi was based. But there weren't enough coupons in circulation to make the plan workable. The ploy bore the hallmarks of both Miller's scheme and others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ponzi Schemes | 12/15/2008 | See Source »

...They’d love for you to go abroad for a semester, maybe not a year.” While the social studies concentration has the highest proportion of students who go abroad, according to Director of Studies for social studies Anya Bernstein, only one person has concentrated in Social Studies after spending a full year studying off-campus. “I’ve watched people crash and burn trying to do it,” she says, referring to two students who ultimately changed concentrations after returning to campus.With the clock ticking, Peisker turned...

Author: By Noah S. Rayman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Broadening Horizons, Abroad | 12/15/2008 | See Source »

...tossing your shoes at someone is an act of extreme disrespect. Shoes, and feet in general, get a bad rap in Arab culture. The language is peppered with insults referring to feet. To say that someone or something is "like my foot" or "like my shoe" means that the person or object is of no importance and beneath you. Sitting cross-legged in a manner in which the sole of a foot is pointing toward an Arab is also a grave insult. U.S. troops in Iraq are often lectured on the importance of not exposing the soles of their shoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Iraqi Shoe Assault: Worst Foot Forward | 12/15/2008 | See Source »

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