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Although the overall blood-sugar reductions were small, "this is a very important trial," says Dr. David Ludwig, director of the Optimal Weight for Life Program at Children's Hospital in Boston. Many previous studies in the field have been underpowered, involving small numbers of subjects, Ludwig says, but this trial was large and looked at important endpoints. "Its results carry additional weight compared to many of the past trials," he says...
...whom will be working out of the White House. Daschle's dual titles are the most telling; he was actually nominated to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, but Obama gave him a West Wing job as well to indicate that, unlike previous HHS Secretaries, Daschle is actually supposed to run the nation's health policy...
...While a state treasurer from 1991-95, he accepted nearly $20,000 from a company tied to Tony Rezko, a now convicted Blagojevich fundraiser and controversial area developer who also backed Obama early in his political career. When questioned about the money - as well as previous dealings with the disgraced Rezko - during the last election cycle, Quinn said he would contribute the Rezko funds to charity...
...married to Thomas Downey, a former Democratic congressman from New York; she has one son from a previous marriage. Downey is chairman of a lobbying firm with dozens of clients, which until Dec. 12 included several with interests in energy policy, according to the company...
This kind of scrapping is old hat for Yusuf, a former Somali army officer who later became one of the country's most powerful warlords. He had forced the previous Prime Minister, Ali Mohamed Gedi, to resign after a political struggle. Yusuf has enormous power because he comes from one of Somalia's biggest clans, the Darod, and carries the implicit threat of a new outbreak of clan fighting wherever he goes...