Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...hour, have not been paid in 11 months, and say they can no longer afford to represent the former Panamanian leader. They asked Judge Hoeveler to set aside a ceiling of $75 an hour for government-paid public defenders so that they could continue representing Noriega for their normal fee, but the judge seemed unmoved. He said "some top-flight criminal-defense lawyers" were willing to handle the case at the government's comparatively low hourly scale...
...forget that. But we've got to do something to restore the normal tension between greed and fear, which admittedly got out of balance in the 1980s but has now -- not-withstanding last week's stock market up-tick -- swung too far toward fear. A few more recommendations...
...clinical trial to assess the connection between blood-sugar levels and the development of complications. Half the 1,441 volunteers are following the standard policy of two insulin * shots a day. The rest belong to an intensive-therapy group that tries to keep blood sugar as close to normal as possible. Some participants, like Ken McDonald, are using insulin pumps. Others inject themselves with insulin four times a day. The results, scheduled for release in 1993, should determine whether or not the benefits of intensive therapy outweigh the risks. Cautions Dr. Saul Genuth of the Mount Sinai Medical Center...
...initial stages of the disease, Type II diabetics have a chance to bring their blood sugar back to normal by dropping a modest amount of weight. But not many succeed. Even more than Type I, Type II diabetes appears to run in families. If both parents develop the disease before middle adulthood, the chance a child will contract it runs close to 80%. Diabetes is endemic among many American Indian tribes, notably the Pima Indians of southern Arizona, who have the highest incidence of Type II diabetes in the world (50% of those over...
...Hispanic diabetics are severe, yet many cannot afford the equipment that would enable them to keep track of their blood sugar. Often they are so badly informed about their disease that they skrimp on the oral medication or insulin shots they need to keep blood glucose in the normal range. In the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, a large health-promotion project, A Su Salud, has begun to spread the word about diabetes on Spanish-language radio and television...