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...calcium, which helps to build bigger and denser bones. After about age 35, however, the process begins to reverse. The body becomes less able to take in calcium, and the blood, which needs the mineral for other organs, begins to leach it out of bones, leaving them weaker. Women suffer in particular because their bones are smaller and less dense than men's. More important, for reasons that are not yet known, menopause speeds up bone loss. Osteoporosis is the excessive form of this natural process...
...passage. More terrible, it often heralds life's end. For the humped back is often the most visible sign of osteoporosis, a progressive disease that leaves bones thin and brittle. Even so simple a motion as walking or sitting can collapse vertebrae and fracture wrists and hips. Those who suffer such breaks rarely recover their mobility. Many wind up in nursing homes. One- quarter die within six months of a hip fracture...
...will not be affected in the long-term.Harvard is an institution that transcends individuals, they say, and its fundraising effort—“a machine that’s such a well-oiled juggernaut,” in the words of one major donor—will not suffer despite the recent unrest.LOST IN TRANSITION Summers’ resignation in February means that the start of the University’s multi-billion-dollar capital campaign, slated to be the largest in the University’s history, awaits the selection of a permanent president to assuage donor uneasiness...
...staple of the human diet since our remote ancestors started eating meat more than 2 million years ago. In the 1960s, however, researchers began to notice that patients who had elevated blood levels of cholesterol--a fatty substance found in meat, poultry, eggs and dairy products--also tended to suffer from heart disease. Cholesterol by-products would form thick, tough deposits, called plaques, on the inner walls of arteries, stiffening them and then starving the heart of blood and creating choke points where a clot could stop the flow entirely...
...returning to its 1967 borders, or face a referendum on the issue. But the fact that Abbas on Tuesday extended the deadline for compliance by another three days suggests that he may be starting to realize what other observers already know - that if Hamas calls his bluff, Abbas could suffer yet another repudiation by Palestinian voters...