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Cardiologists have long known that if you carry extra weight around your waist, which they liken to being shaped like an apple, you are at greater risk of heart disease. The other configuration, being shaped like a pear, with excess weight around the hips, doesn't eliminate your risk but seems to lessen it. Over the years it has become clear that apple-shaped folks have a certain kind of metabolism: they are more likely to be resistant to insulin, have high amounts of triglycerides (one of the fatty molecules you don't want too much of in your blood...
...instead of directly through the fund company, you probably pay a load. To buy Class A shares, you often pay as much as 5% of your money up front before the fund company buys any stocks for you. Class B shares skip the up-front fee, but add an extra average fee of 1% annually and hit you with hefty fines if you cash out early, which proves more costly in the long run. "The whole idea of B shares," says Max Rottersman, founder of FundExpenses.com which tracks mutual-fund fees and costs, "is to get idiots into funds...
England's cash-strapped universities strongly support the measure, arguing that the extra money will allow them to invest in infrastructure and attract more well-qualified professors. "It has become very difficult to recruit top academics, especially in fields with a lot of private-sector competition, like law and IT," says Ivor Crewe, of the representative body Universities U.K. But Tim Yeo, the opposition Conservative Party's spokesman for education, says the debts students accrue "will become so large that they will deter some students from attending university." Both the Tories and Liberal Democrats want to use taxes...
...preparing to host next summer's Olympics, Athens has faced the usual hurdles, like finding enough hotel space and finishing construction on the venues. But some less conventional problems have cropped up, too. Initially, the government planned to license extra brothels to meet surging demand during the Games. But last week the government backed down after vociferous protests from the Greek Orthodox Church and a number of other groups - and with recent opinion polls showing a slump in its popularity. Some other pre-Olympic headaches remain...
...Crimson’s top liners could use the extra breaks on the ice, especially given the games against No. 8 UNH and No. 4 Minnesota-Duluth on the horizon next week...