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...striking more people, and earlier. For the N.S.W. Schools Physical Activity and Nutrition Survey 2004 (SPANS), researchers took blood samples from 500 Year 10 students and found elevated insulin levels-a precursor to the disease-in almost 20% of them. Some researchers argue that obesity may be an early symptom of diabetes rather than a cause of it. They say eating better and exercising more are much better ways of preventing diabetes than shedding fat, and that the number of diabetes sufferers has been inflated by shifting diagnostic boundaries. Nonetheless, diabetes is probably the strongest card the alarmists hold...
...criticism of the Prime Minister's trips to Yasukuni. On Aug. 15, the day Koizumi made his latest visit to the shrine, a right-wing activist allegedly set fire to Kato's family house in the legislator's hometown of Tsuruoka. Kato believes the attack is a symptom of a new "fighting nationalism" that could be easily abused. "It's a time for politicians to be careful about what they say, but Abe is not careful at all," Kato told TIME. "It's easy for politicians to use nationalism to gain popularity. But it will come back to haunt them...
...jewelry-mad Nizams had built up an unparalleled collection of gems: their pearls alone, the Times reported, would "pave Broadway from Times Square to Columbus Circle." But the Nizams' obsession with stuffing their dank chambers with priceless diamonds and then forgetting all about them seems, in retrospect, like a symptom of a deep-rooted anxiety about the dynasty's security. They were Muslim princes ruling, often brutally, over a mostly Hindu part of India, and their reign was always tenuous. It ended in 1948, when independent India seized Hyderabad...
...some terms with which everyone is familiar, specifically, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, insomnia, malaise and muscle aches as well as the ever-popular "unknown dangers to nursing mothers." Yes, these can actually be the side effects of the drug your doc has prescribed but remember: the drug company lists every symptom the people in their test groups report - and it doesn't "blank" the reports against placebo. People are very suggestible, (Do you feel nausea? - "well come to think of it..."). Some of them may happen to have a hangover or gastrointestinal bug on the day they participate in the drug...
...sign of someone becoming so idiosyncratic to the point of inaccessibility or irrationality, which is a possible future for an artist. And I think perhaps the fear of outsiders - and by outsiders I mean anyone that?s not me - is that the first sign of being unorthodox is a symptom of this. That?s one side of the argument...