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• Diabetes cases to double in the next 25 years: US study

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Washington, Nov 28 (ANI): The number of diabetes cases is estimated to almost double in the next 25 years, suggests a new US study.The study led by researchers from University of Chicago has revealed that the number of Americans living with diabetes is likely to increase from 23.7 million in 2009 to 44.1 million in ...
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• Diabetes cases to double and costs to triple by 2034

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 641
  In the next 25 years, the number of Americans living with diabetes will nearly double, increasing from 23.7 million in 2009 to 44.1 million in 2034.
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• 44.1 million Americans will become diabetic by 2034

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Washington, Nov 27 (IANS) The number of Americans living with diabetes will nearly double, from 23.7 million in 2009 to 44.1 million in 2034, say researchers.Consequently, spending on diabetes will almost triple, rising from $113 billion to $336 billion, even with no increase in the prevalence of obesity, researchers ...
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• Little Girls Lost Together.

  
  Iwanttowearit. — Authority: 133
  Lolita is a style of dress with roots in the Victorian era and Japans notorious Harajuku District. With frilly dresses, pigtail ringlets, parasols, bows and underskirts, the girls of Lolita are enacting a femininity that many see as sexualized kids stuff, but they swear its not a matter of kink. Rather its their form ...
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• Study: Political Bent Affects How We View Skin Tone

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  A new study suggests that peoples political views may affect how they perceive President Obamas skin tone, with liberals tending to "lighten" his skin and conservatives tending to "darken" it. "Our beliefs, you know, in this case our political beliefs, can really have pretty profound effects on how we see the world," ...
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• Politics and skin tone perception?

  
  Get Fresh Daily — Authority: 136
  A University of Chicago research study might have uncovered something interesting and a little disturbing.  Researcher Eugene Caruso led a study in which some pictures of President (then candidate) Obama were darkened and some were lightened, while some were kept as is.  The photos, 16 in all, were shown to students ...
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• How To Be A Leader

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  In 2001, just as I was about to take over as Medical Director of Primary Care at the University of Chicago, I expressed reservations to a previous Director about my ability to run a clinic that included several clinicians who were not only older than I but who had actually been my teachers ten years earlier. What she ...
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• Albert Crewe, First to Show a Single Atom, Is Dead at 82

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  Albert Crewe in 1970 with a photo of individual thorium atoms.
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• College Admissions Essays: Wacky Prompts

  
  Great College Advice — Authority: 418
  High school seniors are now in the final stretch of cranking out their college admissions essays. Pity them. In an effort to keep students entertained during the admissions process, some colleges ask students to respond to some pretty wacky prompts. Why? Well, the cynic in me wants to say that these essays are a ...
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• Paleontologists find extinction rates higher in open-ocean settings during mass extinctions

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 641
  Arnie Miller, University of Cincinnati professor of paleontology in the McMicken College of Arts & Sciences, and co-author Michael Foote of the University of Chicago publish their research in the Nov. 20 issue of Science with their paper, "Epicontinental Seas Versus Open-Ocean Settings: The Kinetics of Mass ...
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• BoarCroc, RatCroc, DogCroc, DuckCroc and PancakeCroc

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 641
  WASHINGTON -- A suite of five ancient crocs, including one with teeth like boar tusks and another with a snout like a ducks bill, have been discovered in the Sahara by National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Paul Sereno.
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• Everything You Know About Communism is Right: What Raymond Lotta got wrong

  
  The Chicago Weekly — Authority: 426
  Across the street from the Lubyanka prison, in Moscow, there stood in 1937 a nondescript building with a specially sloped floor, for drainage, and a wooden wall to muffle the sound of bullets . It was here that the Soviet secret police, the NKVD, executed enemies of the Communist regime. Between 1937 and 1938 this ...
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• Mash-up Magician: Girl Talk takes the stage at the University of Chicago

  
  The Chicago Weekly — Authority: 426
  It is a chill Monday evening . Students are studying hard in the University of Chicago’s Harper Library, enshrouded by the thick silence so particular to that Gothic building. Suddenly, the quiet intensity is broken by an enthusiastic, “Are you kidding me?! Girl Talk is coming?? GIRL TALK IS COMING!!!” The news ...
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• Common pain relief medication may encourage cancer growth

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 641
  Although morphine has been the gold-standard treatment for postoperative and chronic cancer pain for two centuries, a growing body of evidence is showing that opiate-based painkillers can stimulate the growth and spread of cancer cells.
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• Excerpt Taken From GQ :: America’s Douchiest Colleges

  
  ::the open end:: — Authority: 136
  Feel like a puzzle? Which universities in this country go with the following descriptions: If you need choices, read the tags. America’s 25 Douchiest Colleges [click for unabridged source] #25 HOME OF: THE BLUE -BLAZER DOUCHE AFFECTATIONS: The side part; the insistence on referring to your school as ...
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• Anti-violence program combines counseling, sports

  
  Chicago Breaking News — Authority: 165
  The University of Chicago has partnered with two community groups to launch a $1 million youth anti-violence program that will include a rare component: a rigorous, scientific evaluation to determine whether its cost-effective. The program, called Becoming a Man-Sports Edition, aims to help adolescent boys in ...
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• CLASS Act (Updated)

  
  The New Republic - the treatment Feed — Authority: 140
  Harold Pollack is a professor at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration and Special Correspondent for The Treatment I’ve written before on the CLASS (Community Living Assistance Services and Supports) Act, an important but costly and complex disability provision in health reform. ...
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• SuperFreakonomics authors: we are not climate change deniers

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 970
  Steven Levitt explains to Robert Miller why spraying sulphur dioxide into the stratosphere to diminish solar radiation makes economic and environmental sense.
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• Q & A with Isaac Tobin, University of Chicago Press

  
  The Casual Optimist — Authority: 122
  To my embarrassment, it wasn’t until his wonderful design for Obsession by Lennard J. Davis that I really began to pay attention to Isaac Tobin ’s work. There was something about the lettering — painstakingly created with pin pricks into thick cardstock — that made me curious about the designer. Who would ...
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• A Boondoggle to Love

  
  The New Republic - the treatment Feed — Authority: 140
  Harold Pollack is a professor at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration and Special Correspondent for The Treatment. The Washington Post includes a nice little article by Aaron Davis on House  provisions to extend stimulus-package Medicaid subsidies to states by six months. Davis ...
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