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...cheap beef patty, French fries and a Coke - the rush of sugar causes something called "post-prandial hyperglycemia": a big spike in blood-sugar levels. Poor diet in the long-term leads to hypertension and buildup of gunk in blood vessels that increases heart-attack risk. But there are short-term effects too. "People don't understand this, even most physicians," says O'Keefe. Tissue becomes inflamed, just as it does when infected. Blood vessels constrict. Free radicals, unstable molecules that cause cell damage and are thought to contribute to chronic disease and aging, are generated. The body's stress...
...Wednesday afternoon, on the New York Mercantile Exchange, a single trader bid up oil until it finally hit the price we'd all been waiting for: $100 a barrel. Driven by trends both short-term (political instability in Africa and speculation) and long-term (voracious new demand from China and India), oil has quadrupled since 2003, doubled since the beginning of 2007 and now reached triple digits for the first time since it began trading on the exchange began...
...still has yet to break its all-time inflation-adjusted high of $102.81 (set in April 1980 after the Iranian revolution). "One hundred dollars is a symbolic number," says John DeCicco, a senior fellow at Environmental Defense. But unlike past eras of high-altitude oil prices, caused by short-term disruptions in supply, today there are simply more countries demanding more oil than ever before, and that's unlikely to change soon. Gasoline prices lag behind oil in the U.S. - a gallon currently goes for an average of $3.05 nationwide - but analysts predict that gas could pass $4 a gallon...
...empirical evidence, however, for this claim. A 1999 study in the Journal of Business found that the boycott had almost no impact on financial markets or corporations in South Africa. In addition, global capital markets are significantly more liquid than they were in the 1980s, so even short-term effects of divestment will revert more quickly...
...pay—which will cut out an average of $4,000 per year in payments—is a wise one. Houses are not liquid assets, and a family should not be penalized for increases in housing prices that do not affect a family’s short-term financial situation. All in all, this program appears to be one that has been well thought through and will certainly help to increase Harvard’s diversity on campus. However, as with any program, the key will be implementation. In its press release, the Financial Aid Office states that...