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Phillips does not know why there was a change in the ratio of estradiol to testosterone in the heart attack victims, but his work has shown that the hormone imbalance is also related to other abnormalities frequently found in heart patients-higher-than-normal levels of blood cholesterol, fat, sugar and insulin. That finding, he said, appears to be "the elusive link between the mild form of diabetes and heart disease." If the hormonal imbalance is proved to be the root cause of heart disease, Phillips concluded, diet, drugs or other means might be used to change the blood hormone...
...another physician, Dr. Allan Ryan, editor of The Physician and Sportsmedicine, agrees that black athletes often have a greater leg-to-trunk-length ratio than whites, which gives them an advantage in activities requiring explosive force, such as sprinting and jumping. Dr. Lyle Micheli, director of the sport-medicine division of Children's Hospital, has made similar observations. In examining black children, he has found that they have relatively small muscle mass in their calves, but highly muscled thighs. Says he: "The combination of the two makes for very efficient running. But we don't know whether...
...plan wasn't designed to help us,and now we don't get breakfast. Mather has a low popularity--we have the highest sophomore sex ratio, overcrowding, and poor shuttle bus service--but now they're making it worse," he said...
MOST OF THE FEATURES that once drew many students to the Quad no longer do so. Four-year housing and the one-to-one sex ratio--which effectively disappeared several years ago--have been eliminated. And the alternative offered by three Houses removed from the main campus appeals to fewer students than it did when the Quad Houses first went coed. Physical improvements in the Quad would now undoubtedly improve its popularity--most of the next year's generation of Quad residents would like to see more facilities there, to draw their Houses more into the College's academic...
Although the 21 U.S. and three Canadian schools had 2,112 first-year positions available last fall, up 8% from 1975, the ranks of would-be vets are growing even faster. While medical schools take about one in three applicants, the acceptance ratio at vet schools is about one in seven-and in many cases even lower. Alabama's Tuskegee Institute is currently screening 1,100 applicants for 50 openings in its veterinary program. Cornell has some 850 applicants for the 80 first-year places available in its vet school. At Washington State University's College of Veterinary...