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...that pregnant women who drink five or more servings of sugar-sweetened drinks a week are 22 percent more likely to develop gestational diabetes mellitus, which is one of the most common pregnancy complications, according to Liwei Chen, the lead author and assistant professor of epidemiology at the Louisiana State University School of Public Health...
There’s a D.C. “Housewives?” Hell yeah. In fact, soon-to-be D.C. housewife Michaele Salahi got some great pub for the show last week with a super classy visit to the White House state dinner. I know it’s hard to follow the table flipping and stripper accusations of New Jersey or the spray-on tan recession woes of Orange County, but this girl really brought it. Meeting Obama is consequential. Being on the guest list and not freaking out the nation is not. Secret Service, you need...
Coming off a 6-0 run at last Saturday’s Harvard Invitational—where the Crimson defeated the defending national champion Penn State in a 14-13 squeaker—Harvard improved it record to 7-0 with its win over Tufts. Crimson coach Peter Brand has called his team’s performance this year “terrific” and yesterday’s meet against Tufts was no exception. In what Brand called “a rout in every respect,” the Harvard sabre and foil squads both went undefeated...
Making the feat more impressive was the fact that Brand sat some of his best fencers to allow fencers further down on the depth chart to get a chance to perform. Vloka and Mills, who both medaled at Garrett Penn State Open to begin the season, were among those who sat out the meet this week. But Volka and Mills, who were suited up for the meet, were still on hand to lend their teammates support...
...place. Following two decades of relative poverty, its latest stimulus-supplemented gambit is to devote billions to try to fix the nation's very worst schools. After having directed almost $50 billion toward saving teacher jobs and $4 billion toward its Race to the Top program, in which states vie for reform-oriented funding, the department just made available applications for districts to compete for $3.5 billion earmarked for turning around failing schools. As part of the application, each state identifies its most "persistently lowest-achieving schools." The submission deadline for this race to the bottom...