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...recent tour of hospitals in China with a delegation from the American Association of Diabetes Educators, I saw the detrimental results of fast food's rise in overseas markets. As the industry pushes its high-fat, high-cholesterol, meat-based foods, rates of diabetes, heart disease and stroke are skyrocketing. Obesity rates have tripled over the past 20 years in countries that have adopted the American diet, according to a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine in January 2007. Rates of diabetes are expected to reach pandemic levels by 2030. Given all that Americans have learned about...
...action on a conference call last Thursday. To ease negotiations within their caucuses, leaders of both parties in the House and the Senate asked the President not to talk specifics when he rolled out the package the next day. And the President and his aides complied, offering only broad stroke outlines of the package as the White House press corps grilled them with question after question. Pelosi says she expects to pass the stimulus package sometime before Congress breaks for the Presidents' Day holidays later in February...
...Harvard Square stayed open late and posted Harry Potter-themed specials, Tercentenary Theater hosted a three-hour concert that featured the musical stylings of Harry and the Potters, and hundreds of Harry Potter fans, many in wizard costumes, lined up outside the Coop to purchase a copy at the stroke of midnight...
...worked for the U.S Embassy in Moscow, and were ordered out overnight by the Soviet government to retaliate their having over 50 Soviet diplomats expelled from the U.S. The techniques were much the same, except the cops didn't harass us at home. It was a masterly Cold War stroke, as withdrawing Soviet support staff totally paralyzed the U.S. embassy for months. However, it was one of the very last such strokes, as the Cold War was dying rather than it being a sign of a new one coming. Yet just over 20 years on, the monster...
ENHANCE may only be the opening salvo against Vytorin - three larger trials are currently under way to measure the drug's effect on heart attack and stroke - and many physicians are not optimistic. "Given these results, it's highly unlikely that those outcomes studies will show dramatic benefit for Vytorin," notes Dr. Raymond Gibbons of the Mayo Clinic, and past president of the American Heart Association...