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...study by a team of researchers at Harvard Medical School found a correlation between a genetic variant and a higher risk for coronary artery disease among people with diabetes and poor glucose control. Previous studies had found a relationship between the variant on chromosome 9p21 and coronary artery disease in the general population. This new study, which was published in the November 26 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, was the first of its kind because it focused on people with diabetes, rather than the general population. “Diabetes is one of the strongest cardiovascular...
...housing buildings and two charter schools, the worst idea she had ever heard. “These labs are right up against the projects but people live there. It may put a lot of money into the city coffers but it’s off the backs of the poor,” she said. Some residents, including Terrence F. Smith, the director of government affairs for the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce, said that thanks to the taxes paid by the biotechnology firms, Cambridge is able to provide extensive programs for its low-income residents while maintaining relatively low property...
...Salvation Army has a devoutly religious mission, rooted in its founding in 1865 by an evangelical protestant minister (and former pawn broker) named William Booth, whose early motivation was to convert poor Londoners - and eventually prostitutes, gamblers and alcoholics - to Christianity. Recognizing that his followers needed more than just religion to improve their lives - and that the way to attract the destitute was the provide services - Booth provided meals, clothing and other assistance to his early converts. He was famous for saying, "Nobody ever got saved while they had a toothache." The quasi-military name "Salvation Army" was given...
...other hand, a Martin surprise in this deep-red state would be a crowning embarrassment for the GOP. It would rival Obama's own victory as a repudiation of the Bush agenda of tax cuts for the rich, pork for the well-connected, belt-tightening for the working poor, drill-baby-drill, strict-construction judges and military adventurism - not to mention the political cynicism that made Chambliss notorious after his ads in 2002 comparing his opponent, triple-amputee Max Cleland, to Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein...
...opinion poll a month ahead of the Nov. 4 election showed that 12% of Americans still thought Obama was a Muslim. There are no reliable statistics on how many in the Middle East believe that, but there's some anecdotal evidence that the notion is especially popular among poor, undereducated Shi'ites in Iran and Iraq...