ST. LOUIS, Jan 26, 2007 (UPI via COMTEX) — About half the U.S. population has the gene that puts them at greater risk of developing diabetes, a study from Saint Louis University said.
From: Diabetes News - American Diabetes Association
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Patients piling medical costs on credit cards - The Boston Globe
This is exactly what Sen. Chuck Grassley said does not happen and the extent to which it does happen people have only themselves to blame. When the whole credit reform act (or whatever it’s called - the one that makes it much harder to declare [...]
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Parisian suburbs in 2010 have gotten so out of control, they’ve been walled off, and District B-13 is the worst of the bunch. A nuclear bomb is stolen and taken to the district and it’s up to Capt. Damien Tomaso (Cyril Raffaelli) to get it back. Helping him out is the do-gooder Leito (David [...]
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Boy Cat Jaune-Tom (voiced by Robert Goulet) loses Girl Cat Mewsette (Judy Garland) when she’s had enough of the bumpkin life of the country and heads off for excitement of the big city. She’s immediately pounced upon by Mme. Rubens-Chatte (Hermione Gingold) and Meowrice (Paul Frees) and, basically, sold into white kitty slavery, destined [...]
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Two! Two! Two disasters in one! Biologist Bill Masen is hospitalized, recovering from a sting from a triffid, a carnivorous plant with a whip-like appendage. The sting got him in the face so his head is wrapped in a bandage for nearly a month. During his last night of recovery, a spectacular comet [...]
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A documentary about John Waters’ early career up to and including Pink Flamingos, the first of his movies to have a main stream distributer. The filmmaker, Steve Yeager, does an excellent job of cobbling together contemporary and present day interviews into a film that does a creditable job of explaining where the films come [...]
This should surprise no one.
Seniors, Democrats ask: Must drugs be so costly? - The Boston Globe
The pharmaceutical industry says it plows profits back into research and development, but some question that argument. Drug manufacturers receive the bulk of a drug’s retail price , said Stephen Schondelmeyer , a University of Minnesota researcher who tracks drug [...]
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I like reading oral histories as there really isn’t any better way to get an idea of things that really happened from the perspective of those who were there without the narrative being filtered by the author’s agenda. (There is the risk of selective inclusion in the collection of narratives, but I think that’s [...]
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The latest (and possibly final) installment of Michael Apted’s “Up” series that began in 1964 when Granada Television interviewed fourteen seven-year-old children to get their views on life. Apted then returned to do more interviews every seven years. They are now 49 years old.
This is the most interesting one in a long time although [...]
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George Orr (Bruce Davison) has “effective dreams” and whatever he dreams becomes reality. In fact, it has always been reality and no one but he is aware of the change. As part of his probation for drug abuse (trying to keep from dreaming), he is required to visit Dr. Haber (Kevin Conway), a psychiatrist [...]
Because of the forcast for sleet and ice, I swapped out for the studded tires. I didn’t realize just how heavy these are. It’s like riding through molasses. I mean, what it must be like to ride through molasses as I’ve never actually done that. But I have ridden through some pretty muddy and sticky [...]
Picked up some inexpensive fenders for the SS at REI. I’m tired of getting my shoes wet.
$12.60.
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The may actually be the best book I’ve ever read. I challenge anyone to point me to a better one.
This has it all in a plot that is entirely complete. If you’re not familiar with the plot, a young sailor named Edmond Dantes is set to be married to Mercedes, a woman he dearly [...]
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In 1964, Grenada TV interviewed a bunch of 7-year-olds about life. Every seven years since, the same group has been re-interviewed. This is the sixth installment.
There’s not much to say really. They’re approaching middle age and things have played out about as expected with a few notable exceptions. The most interesting part of this [...]
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I’m not quite sure why this got panned so badly by the reviewers. I thought it was quite good as a superhero flick. Every bit as good as the X-Men series, at least, and way better than Spider-Man II.
The four are given super powers as a result of an accident of sorts and the [...]
Seventy god-fearing Farenheit degrees (21 heathen centigrade degrees) in January!
January!
So I did the Minuteman. The trail was very crowded, with lots of kids and their Christmas bikes. It rained earlier in the day, so there were a lot of puddles and sand and a very stiff wind. I was in full summer kit; no warmers, [...]
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Superheros are forced to retire after a litigious society starts costing the city too much to defend the consequences of their superheroism. Fifteen years later, an archvillan created by thoughtless handling of a “greatest fan” by Mr. Incredible shows up on the scene to put society back in chaos. The villain eliminates most [...]
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Nick (William Powell) and Nora (Myrna Loy) take a vacation to visit Nick’s folks. Nick’s dad isn’t pleased that Nick decided not to follow in the medical field, and Nora keeps trying to play up Nick’s career choice by describing the cases he’s solved. The vacation is soon over as someone shows up dead [...]
