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...considered, doctors with fewer resources in the developing world can screen for heart-disease risk just as effectively as their counterparts in high-income countries. There is some question about whether results from the U.S. can be applied accurately to other populations - for a given BMI, for example, Asians tend to have a higher body-fat ratio than Caucasians - but, in many ways, Americans of the 1970s may be more similar than not to populations elsewhere today. In the '70s, Americans smoked a lot more tobacco than today, and few were getting treatment for high blood pressure or high cholesterol...
...report issued by Harvard and six research institutions, the average age at which professors are first awarded an R01 research grant has risen from 39 to 43 since 1990. R01 grants to fund individual projects make up the largest portion of the funding that Harvard receives. Young researchers also tend to be creative and innovative, and so halting projects for this group is particularly hazardous. Furthermore, to maintain a foothold in the rapid global scientific race, the U.S. will need to ramp up domestic research support. Fortunately, the biomedical industry is receiving deserved attention at the state level. Last week...
WHAT ABOUT BOYS? The study found no correlation between gym class and test scores for boys, but that may be because elementary-school-age males tend to be more active outside school. And according to the CDC, boys are often more physically fit than girls, meaning gym-class dodgeball might not be enough to give them the same beneficial physiological effects...
...serious ones. Marvin Zuckerman, psychologist and professor emeritus at the University of Delaware, says risk-taking can mean seeking sensory experiences through food or travel or the more primal thrills of sex--as may be the case with Eliot Spitzer. The problem is, he says, that "high-sensation seekers tend to underestimate the risk...
...Broken down, the Mississippi vote had an unmistakable racial descant - and unmistakable limits for Obama. Exit polls revealed once again an emerging racial divide that has opened in the Democratic party between whites who tend by healthy margins to favor Clinton and blacks who overwhelmingly favor Obama. African Americans made up nearly half of the Democratic vote in Mississippi - and 90% of those voters, according to exit polls, pulled the lever for Obama, his strongest showing yet among African Americans. But Obama did poorly among whites, winning only 30%, according to exit polls. While this split was visible in Alabama...