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...protein that is helpful to embryo survival may actually be harmful to babies born to diabetic women, according to a recent study released by a Harvard Medical School (HMS) affiliate. Past research has found that diabetic women are two to five times more likely than women with normal blood sugar levels to have babies with birth defects. In the recent study, which was conducted on mice, HMS associate professor Mary R. Loeken and her colleagues at the Joslin Diabetes Center identified the expression of the glucose transporter Glut2 early in embryonic development as a factor in this disparity. However, because...
...life" here, it may be a good thing for India's economy that games played by daylight in the Caribbean run from around 7 p.m. until 3 or 4 in the morning, local time. Many employers have already said they will allow employees to start work slightly later than normal, while a few companies that operate at night have arranged for television coverage so no one misses out. Bangalore-based Infosys BPO, which operates call centers for companies in Europe and the U.S., has even arranged for big screens just outside the main work area so that people on their...
...freshly pressed tuxedos and jewel-bedecked women packed Lowell Dining Hall on Wednesday evening, creating an atmosphere that was hardly a normal weeknight HUDS experience. They were gathered for a singular event: the premiere of the Lowell House Opera’s 69th annual performance, Richard Straus’ “Der Rosenkavalier...
...much is normal about elections in Northern Ireland. When voters trooped to the polls on March 8, they did so without knowing if there would be a functioning government coming out the other side or even if their elected representatives would be in a job at the end of the month. Two-thirds of them turned out anyway. The outcome was fairly predictable, in that elderly Protestant preacher Ian Paisley and Gerry Adams, who turned IRA gunmen into formidable political operators, tightened their respective holds on the Protestant and Catholic vote. But what happens next is not nearly as easy...
...report reassuring—it provided them with a sexual-behavioral spectrum on which they could situate themselves.Because Kinsey separated these norms by age, class, religion, and gender, he created “a more finely grained scale along which nearly everyone could at least aspire to be normal.” The desire to be normal, to understand the average, to know one’s place in a mass society is likely more true of Americans grappling with Cold War conformity than the YouTube and MySpace culture that we live in today. But Igo ends her book with...