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...Wackers stresses, however, that these findings do nothing to diminish the very real risk of heart disease in diabetics. A 1998 Finnish study documented that diabetes patients who had not suffered a heart attack had the same poor health profile as those who had - findings that prompted the American Diabetes Association to recommend heart-disease screening for all diabetes patients with two or more additional risk factors for heart disease, such as high cholesterol or hypertension, even in the absence of symptoms. "That study really changed the field," says Wackers, "and told us we cannot miss the risk of heart...
...What!). Consider the humorous, and slightly scary power of Google Earth. Take on an awesome NYT feature on old, lonely, bored, rich men paying for the companionship of young, beautiful women (and bask in the moral ambiguity!). Also, FlyBy would like to quickly pour out some liquor for that poor dying newspaper industry by checking on some fascinating uses for useless newsracks (Don't get any ideas, 'Poon...
...Thanks to increasing demand and poor sugaring weather in some regions over the past several years, retail prices have spiked to as much as $80 per gallon in some places. In the current sagging economy, that definitely counts as a sweet spot...
...Reforma in eastern Guatemala doesn't seem like the kind of place that would have a first-rate hospital and a handful of mansions. There's no bank, no grocery store and more than 70% of the inhabitants of the municipality that includes La Reforma, called Huite, are poor. But officials tell TIME they suspect a few locals are making a handsome profit by assuring that Colombian cocaine makes it safely through Guatemala to Mexico and then...
Should students be going to school longer? I think the school day is too short, the school week is too short and the school year is too short. And I worry particularly about poor children - children who don't have two parents at home, children who don't have a household full of books. You look at all the creative schools that are getting dramatically better results. The common denominator of all of them is they're spending more time, doing more after school, doing more on Saturdays, doing more over the summer. The other big issue is that ultimately...