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...assess heart disease risk: age, systolic blood pressure, smoking status, total cholesterol, diabetes status and any hypertension treatment. They found that they could substitute body mass index (or BMI, a ratio of height to weight), a noninvasive measure, for the lab-based blood test for cholesterol and still accurately predict patients' five-year cardiovascular disease risk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Testing for Heart Risk More Cheaply | 3/14/2008 | See Source »

...impersonating varying American accents and impugning the audience for laughing at him. When we laugh at him, Shankar says, he laughs back. In another skit, two of the many non-South-Asian performers discussed the glamorous, festive image of India. Stepping off the plane in India, the two predict lots of colorful dresses, vibrant music, and energetic and suggestive dancers gesturing to each other from occasionally gender-segregated groups. Instead, they find a beggar. Typical of the show’s comedic flair, the beggar that the two encounter turns out to be a dancer on a Bollywood film...

Author: By Sasha F. Klein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Dance, Glitter Shine in 'Ghungroo' | 3/12/2008 | See Source »

...into one of two general forms. The first à la “alien fish” is a hackneyed comparison that links a scientific study to some bit of pop culture or conventional wisdom. The second is a proclamation from a cabal of modern day Nostradamoi who predict a vague future catastrophe that will end all life on earth...

Author: By Steven T. Cupps | Title: Shock and Awww | 3/7/2008 | See Source »

...latest polls, conducted before the assassination, gave the Socialists a 4.1% lead over the Popular Party, and with voter turnout emerging as a key factor in these elections, the effect of today's killing is, in fact, hard to predict. Jose Ramon Montero, political scientist at Madrid's Autonomous University, believes the assassination "will certainly have an effect, but perhaps in a different direction than you might expect. Certainly there is a parallel with what happened in the last elections," he says, referring to the surprise ouster of the Popular Party government in the wake of the 2004 Madrid subway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Killing Chills Spain's Election | 3/7/2008 | See Source »

Smith’s inability to predict when the search would be complete raised some questions outside of University Hall as to whether he was having difficulty finding interested candidates...

Author: By Christian B. Flow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Search That Ended At Hammonds Was Long, Deliberative | 3/5/2008 | See Source »

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