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...surging from $18 million in 1980 to $240 million last year. Those who gag on the tablets, which are huge gullet pluggers, can even try getting their mineral boost in a novel way -- EZ-CAL Soft Calcium Whip, an aerosol can filled with calcium foam that was introduced in test markets last week. In short, just about anything consumable has been laced with the stuff...
...genetic studies are still preliminary, but if confirmed, they could lead to a simple screening test that would alert vulnerable people at a young age, early enough for them to take steps that could help ward off the disease. Says Dr. John Eisman, who led the groundbreaking research at the Garvan Institute & of Medical Research in Sydney: "I envision a woman going in for a blood test, which will become as routine as a cholesterol check, to assess her bone density and risk for osteoporosis...
Like so many genetic discoveries these days, the new findings are likely to be a mixed blessing. A screening test could identify people at high risk of osteoporosis even at birth. That knowledge would provide relief for some parents and their offspring -- and certain worry for others. But researchers stress that having the B form of the vitamin D receptor gene does not doom people to a severe case of the disease...
...where menial and tedious tasks such as tracing lines on electrode-conducting paper have doubled as deepening my understanding of electromagnetism. Not quite. I’ve even laughed dry cackles of skepticism after emerging from hour-long lectures of incomprehensible professorial conjecture, knowing all the while that the test would be a painless regurgitation of colorful catch-phrases...
...Harvard report suggested.Two hundred students threatened to storm Mass. Hall on an October day in 1980 to protest the report, written by a special assistant to then-University president Derek C. Bok. The report suggested that black students and women at the University perform poorer academically than their test scores would predict.The assistant, Robert E. Klitgaard ’68, also suggested in his findings that affirmative action might not be working, that it’s unclear whether diversity benefits a university, and that Jewish students—unlike their black and female peers—perform better than...