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...something only diabetics worry about? No. In fact, insulin is the critical hormone that allows everyone to absorb simple sugars like glucose from their food as it is digested. Most people are so good at producing the right amount of insulin that they are never even aware of its vital presence in their bloodstream...
...naming process, as it would seem to me, goes something like this: typical Alternative Band X decides it needs a name--and a good one at that. After surveying the names of similar groups that have been commercially successful, its members realize that a catchy and quirky name is vital to the group if it ever hopes to wins a spot on Casey's Top 40 or even a gig on "Late Night With Conan O'Brian." So, following the lead of groups like Green Day, Barenaked Ladies, Smashing Pumpkins and Foo Fighters, the band members brainstorm...
...flagged the importance of how popular entertainment shows like E.R. treat health issues. In fact, surveys conducted by this foundation show that 53% of E.R.'s regular viewers say they learn about vital health-care issues from watching the program, and 12% say they have contacted a medical professional because of something they saw on the show. As you noted, our foundation works with TV writers. One reason we do so is to help ensure that their portrayals of health issues are accurate and balanced. But to compare the public-health efforts of nonprofits like the foundation with those...
Koskinen's task is not just daunting; it's impossible. The feds own roughly one-quarter of all the computers in the U.S. The Pentagon alone has about 1.5 million machines--and it keeps discovering more. At last count, at least 4,500 of the government's most vital systems still needed to be repaired. And the studied silence of President Clinton and Vice President Gore on the subject isn't making it any easier to raise the alarm. "This is not a technical problem," Koskinen says. Right. It's a people problem: getting top bureaucrats to listen...
...date," he confesses. Now, as the head of the Department of Defense's Y2K office, Curtis is in charge of fixing his own--and everyone else's--software screwups. It's a job nobody else wanted. Although the Pentagon began Y2K planning in 1995, repairs of the most vital computer systems were only 9% complete this spring. The F-15 and the Navy's Tomahawk missile are two of 34 as yet undebugged weapons systems cited in a report scheduled to be released this week. When pressed, Curtis admits that even the military's most "mission critical" systems--perhaps...