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...learn she has this form of diabetes, a chronic metabolic disorder that used to be called adult onset but was renamed in part because so many kids Hillary's age were getting it. As doctors have repeatedly warned, the U.S. is experiencing a diabetes epidemic. Some 18 million Americans suffer from one form or another, with 1.3 million new cases diagnosed last year--up from 878,000 in 1997. And although Type 2 diabetes still tends to strike people in their fifth or sixth decade, more children are getting it, a fact of grave concern to health officials...
...perceived as one of the world's biggest jerks" was uncalled for. Most people believe that an actor owes the public nothing more than good performances, and Crowe always delivers them. Because he is world famous, has won an Oscar for Best Actor and is earning megabucks, must he suffer fools like gossip columnists? Give him a break already; he's a great actor and deserves to be his own person, not the person journalists believe he should be. He's only human and has his faults, just like all the rest of us. JAN M. BARBARITA Novato, Calif...
...pact enjoins all 12 members of the euro bloc to maintain strict fiscal discipline. Above all, they were to keep their deficit spending below 3% of GDP in order to stave off inflation. But what's a sacrosanct international agreement when the national interest comes calling? France and Germany suffer from close-to-zero growth and close-to-double-digit unemployment rates. So why not spend their way out of the slump, never mind yesterday's vows? With about a 4% deficit, Germany, in 2004, will be above the limit for the third year in a row. The defendant...
People who are addicted to their BlackBerry wireless PDAs have been known to suffer withdrawal symptoms when they go abroad and lose their signal. But BlackBerry maker Research In Motion is ready to offer them a fix: the 7200 series color-screen world phones, offered by AT&T Wireless, Cingular and T-Mobile, the three largest GSM carriers. The term world phone describes one that can operate on several different frequency bands worldwide. The three carriers' 7200 BlackBerrys differ slightly in the frequencies they can access; to determine your own needs, consult your service provider or gsmworld.com These new phones...
...burdens of life without daylight are in many cases personal. Six percent of Americans suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) each winter, and an additional 14 percent experience more minor daylight-related mental health problems. SAD is eminently threatening at Harvard, where late bedtimes and heavy workloads conspire to deprive students of natural light. Extending Daylight Saving Time through the winter would alleviate an ample share of such cases...