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Insulin is a hormone secreted by the Islets of Langerhans in the pancreas. Its function is to regulate the combustion and storage of sugar in the body. Failure of these small cellular masses causes blood sugar to increase abnormally. Withdrawal of sugar from the tissues results in hunger, weakness, loss...
¶ Widely discussed in railroad circles last week was the possibility that the western roads might appoint a commission to regulate them, arbitrate among them, at the head of the commission to be an all-powerful "tsar." Such a ruler could eliminate duplications of service, reform methods of freight solicitation...
What the plank meant constitutionally was obvious. A Republican Congress was to propose to the States another amendment, not specifically repealing the 18th Amendment but superseding it exactly as the 17th Amendment for the direct election of Senators superseded the constitutional provision for their selection by State Legislatures; exactly as...
The council had appealed to the National Ministry of Agriculture for regulatory measures. Replied the Ministry: "One cannot regulate the gathering of snails unless one can define them, is it not? Under what category of animals whose breeding and marketing are regulated by the Government are we to classify them...
Councillor Henri Espadrille (consulting a dictionary): "The snail is a castropod mollusk, or shellfish (which are not fish), like the whelk, the slug, the mussel, the limpet, the oyster. Messieurs, we can regulate the snail as seafood, for he is really an oyster."