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...What's driving the upswells? A rising standard of living and greater exposure to a Western diet rich in sugars and empty calories are certainly to blame, along with a more sedentary lifestyle. But many patients turning up at Jhingan's office and similar clinics are not fat-at least not by Western standards. It appears that a change in diet and a few extra pounds are enough to trigger the disease in many Asian and African populations...
...take its place. It’s not as easy when you’re starting on a 20-page essay two days past its deadline. Some people I’ve talked to share a handful of my symptoms. Minor accomplishments, say, the completion of a particularly clause-rich sentence, seem to merit, according to the dominant irrational side of my mind, an entire hour’s worth of distractions. (Pick your poison: mp3 or avi.) Constant underestimation of how long a given paper will take has led to my foolhardy belief that any paper can be tackled...
Holman had a talent for brushing up against interesting people and things--literally. He occasionally got into trouble for groping a piece of statuary or other priceless artifact, and his biographer takes full advantage of any occasion for a rich, satisfying digression. Holman met Franois Huber, a pioneering blind entomologist who, like Holman, had managed to carve out a career despite his disability. He studied bees using a special hinged hive that opened and shut like a book. Holman sailed with William Owen, the brilliant, illegitimate, eccentric naval captain who surveyed the coast of Africa...
...says that his dormitory was a reflection of his socioeconomic standing. “There was a hierarchy of dorms,” he recalls. “Those with the means could live in nicer dorms at the time and if those without could live in the character rich dorms.” Because neither one of his parents had gone to college, Leder says he did not face any pressure to choose a particular school. While he considered enrolling in the Naval Academy, Leder says it wasn’t until he realized he wanted to pursue...
...HILLS MTV, WEDNESDAYS, 10 P.M. E.T. Oh, to be young, beautiful and videotaped! This sequel to rich-kids reality soap Laguna Beach follows LB's Lauren Conrad to fashion school in L.A. She moves into a fabulous West Hollywood apartment, then interviews for and just happens to land an internship at Teen Vogue--you keep waiting for the scene in which a 10-carat diamond falls from the sky into her lap. With My Super Sweet 16 and Tiara Girls, The Hills completes a kind of MTV trilogy of princesshood. Yet it's hard not to like Conrad, if only...