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...bullets and blood are played out on Tijuana's dusty streets, President Obama discusses cross-border gun smuggling issues with Mexico's President Felipe Calderon and U.S. Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano unveils new security measures along the San Diego-Tijuana border, it's just business as usual for many, like Eric Camerino...
...hillside classroom in Medellín, a group of teenage boys take crayons to long sheets of unfurled paper. One draws the detonation pin of a hand grenade. Another sketches blood splattered across a body. Scrawled words say what the pictures can't: Hunger. Kidnappings. Revenge. Displacement. Distress...
Maggie Mauer, a Miami psychologist volunteering her expertise in trauma, points to a drawing of a body lying in a pool of blood as a good sign. "Last year, he wouldn't even draw anything," she says of the artist, Alejandro, who was drugged and raped by his FARC commander. Alejandro is able to talk about it now but says, "What happened to me, you can't make go away." Next to a drawing of an explosive, he sketches the school bus he now boards every day, and he works on penciling the road to the future. Alejandro dreams...
...drinks. The researchers took pains to eliminate as many intruding factors as possible by asking the volunteers to commit to a 12-week program; for the first and last two weeks of the study, each subject lived at UCD's Clinical and Translational Science Center, where they underwent rigorous blood tests to determine their insulin and lipid levels, among other metabolic measures. (Take a quiz on eating smart...
...deposits. In this group, the liver churned out more fat, while the subjects consuming similar amounts of glucose-sweetened drinks showed no such change. The fructose-drinking volunteers also were not as sensitive to insulin, the hormone released by the pancreas to capture and break down glucose in the blood and store it as fat. Insulin insensitivity is one of the first signs of diabetes. These subjects also gained more visceral fat, the dangerous kind that embeds itself between tissues in organs such as the heart and liver and secretes hormones and other chemicals that throw off the body...