Word: sugars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like most Type I diabetics, the students entering the self-care program are accustomed to giving themselves one or two daily shots of, insulin, the hormone that their pancreas is unable to produce naturally. Insulin is essential for the metabolism of glucose, the simple sugar that serves as the body's principal fuel. Without an adequate supply of insulin, glucose literally goes to waste, passing out of the body in the urine so that the individual slowly wastes away...
Diabetics have traditionally assessed their need for insulin by testing the amount of sugar in their urine, using a simple chemical test. Unfortunately, this test is unreliable, and Type 1 diabetics generally suffer from abnormally high and often wildly fluctuating levels of glucose in their bodies. It is suspected that many of the complications of the disease-blindness, kidney failure, narrowing of the arteries and gangrene leading to amputation of limbs-are caused by the buildup of sugar...
...tight-control movement aims to avoid these problems by keeping sugar levels within normal bounds. The only way to do this is by constantly monitoring the level of glucose in the blood. At programs like D.S.C.P., diabetics learn to perform the procedure at home, using special strips of chemically treated paper. When a drop of blood is placed on the strip, the paper changes color. The shade indicates how much glucose is present in the blood, and can be interpreted by either matching it to a color chart or feeding the strip into a small electronic device...
Certainly the plot, a collage of stylized romantic twists, does not cry out for a sober presentation. This time around the star-crossed hopefuls are the ebullient Crocker and sweeter-than-sugar Hope Harcourt. True, Hope has another fiance but the undulating Reno (Heidi Dallin) makes an effort to rearrange the romantic supply and demand. All of this on a luxury ocean liner...
...enforcement agents now say Vesco has been located at last: in Cuba, where he is apparently the guest of Fidel Castro. He was the "arranger, fixer and middleman" in a scheme to smuggle American-made sugar-processing equipment into Cuba, says Jack Wolfe, an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Brownsville, Texas, who successfully prosecuted another man in the case. Richard Bettini, an old friend of Vesco's who testified for the Government in the trial, says Vesco has a waterside villa near Havana with a private dock and a yacht. Bettini recounted flying to Havana in Vesco's private...