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...wrong," says Dr. Frans Wackers, professor of diagnostic radiology and medicine at Yale University School of Medicine and an author of the DIAD study. "We found to our surprise that there was not an increase in heart abnormalities among diabetic patients, but actually fewer abnormalities. And the next surprising thing was that this was true in both the group that received screening and the group that received no screening...
...power grid is far from perfect. On any given day, 500,000 Americans experience an outage, says Arshad Mansoor of the Electric Power Research Institute, which is funded by the utility industry. Why is this a good thing? Because it means the grid deals with breakdowns all the time, and the industry knows how to fix them. The grid has built-in redundancies and manual overrides that allow for restoration of supply. Mansoor is careful to point out that these are "not defenses against cyberattacks, but for dealing with the consequence of such attacks...
...horrendous economy is teaching becomes a much more attractive profession. Second, you have the President, the First Lady, the Vice President, the Vice President's wife - who still teaches today, which is amazing - talking about serving your country, [saying] here is what you need to do. The final thing is, over the next several years we could lose, due to retirement, as many as a million teachers. Our ability to attract or retain good teachers over the next four, five, six years is going to shape public education in our country for the next 25 to 30 years...
...European campaign no one cares about," says Lorrain de Saint-Affrique, a political strategist who advised Le Pen in the 1980s. "Le Pen needs scandal to be elected. Dieudonné is an entertainer using politics to promote his career. Outrage generates headlines - and both men need those." Yet another thing the two have in common...
...Paraguay, if not the Vatican, also stands to suffer scrutiny as a result of the paternity episode - especially if the claim that the sexual relationship between Lugo and Carrillo began when she was a minor is true, something the President and his lawyer adamantly deny. It's one thing for a celibate parish priest to father children and try to keep it under wraps; but when it involves a bishop, it casts a spotlight on the church hierarchy. Although the Vatican had accepted Lugo's resignation as bishop, it refused to recognize his exit from the priesthood until after...