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...importance of exercise, imagine an inexpensive pill that could decrease the hemoglobin A1C value by 1 percentage point," write Dr. William Kraus of Duke University Medical Center and Dr. Benjamin Levine of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, in an accompanying editorial. "Diabetes experts would be quick to incorporate this pill into practice guidelines and performance measures for diabetes...
...With campaigning intensifying and public anger over the fires fading, Karamanlis has gone on the offensive, ordering quick handouts of more than $4000 to fire victims and pledging a raft of measures, including higher pensions and tax breaks, in an attempt to entice disgruntled conservatives back to the party fold. He has also threatened to take Greeks on a fresh trip to the polls if his New Democracy party fails to win an outright majority. "I understand there is bitterness," Karamanlis told an election rally in northern Greece. "But this in not the time for a negative vote...
...even be national: house prices have been rising sharply in Europe, Australia, South Africa and China. Two countries at the leading edge of this boom, the U.K. and Australia, saw housing markets sputter in 2004 and 2005 but then recover. This may indicate that a quick recovery is possible in the U.S. It could also mean that the global boom will end only in a global bust--and U.S. mortgage troubles are now ominously making themselves felt around the world...
...PORTUGUESE POLICE HAVE HANDED 3,000 pages of evidence to the district attorney, who in turn submitted them to a judge who must decide whether to bring charges against the parents. Given the usually glacial pace of the Portuguese justice system, the decision may not be quick. Meanwhile, the McCanns are back in England, surrounded by a resolutely supportive family. Some in Britain have called for the other McCann children to be removed to protective custody. Kate and Gerry won't allow that without a fight. They have hired top lawyers, including one who barred the extradition of Chilean dictator...
...whatever the piece was. I'd just sit in the chair, and they'd hand me a fretless bass, and they'd hand me a mandolin, and they'd take a second to do the rough mix, and then I'd write the vocal, and it was just quick. It was as in the moment as you could be, and in that way it's like a great feeling of being alive. You'd hear two pieces at the end of the day--or three--and feel like you were actually doing something on this planet while you were here...