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...receptors to which insulin attaches, controlling the utilization of sugar. This may account for the elevated levels of blood sugar and insulin. The tendency to acquire oversize fat cells may in turn be regulated by hormones, suggests Kissebah. Women with upper-body obesity, he found, have a higher ratio of male hormones to female hormones than their lower-body-obese counterparts or women of average weight. The very distribution of their adipose tissue-around and above the waist-is more like that of pot-bellied men. Significantly, obese men have a higher incidence of diabetes than obese women...
...penthouse office. "It's like being rejected by your lover; it gives you an excuse to call someone else. Every day I heard that somebody new didn't like it. So I thought let's have a perfect screening-a big screen, good projection, a 1.33 ratio [the pre-CinemaScope screen shape, 1.33 times as wide as it is high] so the heads don't get chopped off. Let 6,000 people see it, not six exhibitors. Besides, I own the picture, not Paramount. It's up to me to make it a success...
Despite fragmented moments of capable and tenacious basketball, the Crimson lacked vital fundamental skills throughout the game. Freshman Andrea Mainelli dished off the only Harvard assist of the entire game, and the team is shooting at a sobering 35-per-cent field goal ratio...
...math. Ohio's total remediation tab last year: between $10 million and $12 million. Says Elaine Hairston, director of special programs for the Ohio Board of Regents: "Students who need remedial work need specific help. To be done right it requires one-to-one tutoring and low-student-ratio labs...
...nation's dailies have prospered in the past decade as lustily as The New York Times. The great gray lady has adjusted to television with its reputation (and profitability) intact. The Times pulled this off by knowing its market and catering to it exquisitely. The ratio of white collar to blue collar workers in the American economy has shifted significantly toward the former in recent years, and the number of college-educated adults has never been higher. These people share a loyalty to the institution of the morning paper, the time to read one before work and an appealing...