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...blood out of a stone. Many economists have been concerned that the collapse of print, television, and internet display advertising is a strong indicator of how the broad economy is performing. Marketers in these media range from large drug firms spending tens of millions of dollars to small mechanic shops putting classified ads in the local newspaper. If all of these forms of adverting are down 25% to 35% it means that many, many businesses cannot even afford to invest in acquiring new customers. That, as much as any other sign, shows the depth of the recession's effect...
...That same area of the brain is also strongly interconnected with neural networks that regulate some of the body's most basic functions, such as breathing and blood pressure, which indicates that complex social emotions build on systems that evolved early, including those essential to our survival. "It is important to realize that they recruit the brain in a very deep manner," says Antonio Damasio, one of the authors of the study published online this week in the Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Sciences and the director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at University of Southern California...
...fact, the answers are sometimes conflicting. In March, scientists from Australia and New Zealand reported in the New England Journal of Medicine that aggressively lowering blood sugar in diabetes patients who have had a heart attack does not reduce their future risk of heart disease, but in fact puts these patients at higher risk of hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) and death. Meanwhile, in the current issue of JAMA, another study found that intensive blood-glucose therapy in diabetes patients was not linked with greater mortality...
...Such results make it difficult to know for sure whether the risks of abnormally high or abnormally low levels of glucose are more dangerous for diabetes patients who land in the hospital with a heart attack and high blood sugar levels. "It's a moving target," says Nathan. "But we are winning the battle. It's been an incredibly exciting several decades in diabetes research, but a lot more work needs to be done. We know what we need to do, we just need to apply what we learn better - to the right patients at the right time...
...Always write with a compass but not a map,” says Ceridwen Dovey ’03, quoting the contemporary Spanish author Javier Marias to describe the way she approaches writing. Dovey’s first novel, “Blood Kin,” follows the paths of three members of a presidential staff in a nameless country. “Blood Kin” was published in 2007, and since then, Dovey’s debut novel has accumulated a growing catalog of literary prizes and sparkling reviews. In many ways, the author?...