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...council has become prone to discontent, in large part because of Mahan’s oligarchic style of leadership. While his popular predecessor Rohit Chopra ’04 largely led behind the scenes, building relationships with top College administrators and securing support for council legislation before entering Sever 113 for the council’s Sunday evening meetings, Mahan has worked closely with a small circle of council allies, at the expense of his support among the rest of the council. The creation of his so-called “cabinet,” for example, helped effect Mahan?...
Sometimes in order to fully understand a problem you have to study its opposite. That's why researchers trying to figure out what makes some of us so prone to obesity are taking a close look at patients at the other end of the bathroom scale: anorexics who starve themselves and bulimics who binge and purge. Could over-and undereating, scientists wonder, be two sides of the same coin, different forms of the same biological circuitry gone awry...
...India, the rat race to attain and keep a place in the élite class has produced some bad results. The West has exported its diseases as well its technology. Our traditional diet and lifestyle used to keep us healthy, but junk food and irregular hours have made us prone to heart disease. Let us go back to a way of living based on healthy values and abandon maddening pursuits. Otherwise, a time may come when it will be hard to distinguish between home and hospital. Arvind K. Pandey Allahabad, India...
...your risk of high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease and stroke. Sprouts are particularly rich in glucoraphanin, one of a class of substances that work indirectly as antioxidants by boosting the body's antioxidant defense systems. Scientists at the University of Saskatchewan fed glucoraphanin-laden sprouts to lab rats prone to high blood pressure and stroke. After 14 weeks the animals had stronger antioxidant defenses, less inflammation, lower blood pressure and generally improved cardiovascular health...
...taking classes at Harvard and writing an astrology column for a Boston gay weekly under the name Madame Cheva. He does not deny that he can be "deliberately unusual." The spelling of his first name comes from an attempt to trace the origin of his junk mail. He is prone to disconcertingly lengthy pauses in the midst of even the simplest sentences. His tiny Manhattan apartment is crammed with more than 90 musical instruments, all of which he can play. He rarely socializes. "I'm not a party type," says Merritt. "I go to cafes and bars and nightclubs...