Study: Why Diabetes Looks Different in Asia

For Asians, it seems, being young and thin isn’t enough to ward off Type II diabetes. Though the disease is typically associated with old age and obesity, a study published May 27 in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that Asia’s growing number of diabetics are relatively young and well under weights traditionally matched with the disease

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Nevada legalizing domestic partnerships

Nevada is legalizing domestic partnerships, with the state Assembly voting Sunday evening to override a veto by the governor, officials said. (CNN) — The enduring moments of our lives, the ones that stay with us the longest, don’t necessarily make the headlines. The other afternoon I was talking with a woman by the name of Virginia Florey

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Time to Face Facts on Our North Korea Ignorance

It’s not what we know about rogue states and their nuclear bombs that should scare us — it’s what we don’t know. North Korea’s test of a nuclear device on Monday may not have come as a surprise to Washington, but only in the sense that Washington knew Pyongyang was defiant enough to set one off.

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Amid Bankruptcy GM and Chrysler Retirees Face an Anxious Future of UAW Healthcare

The health care of thousands of retired auto workers is about to change: On Friday the membership of the United Auto Workers overwhelmingly approved a restructuring plan with GM, according to UAW president Ron Gettelfinger. The plan gives the union’s health care vehicle some promissory notes plus a 17.5% stake in GM and warrants to purchase another 2.5%. Assuming the deals survive bankruptcy court, and experts expect it will, the change marks a new direction in health care for GM retirees, and now puts them in much the same camp as Chrysler retirees.

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A Brain Wider Than the Sky by Andrew Levy

I have only once in my life had a headache that might qualify as a migraine. It was in Palm Beach, Fla., in 2005. I was interviewing the writer James Patterson and simultaneously withdrawing cold turkey from a prescription antidepressant when suddenly I had the sensation of an airbag trying to inflate inside the tight confines of my cranium

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Coming to the Living Room: 3-D TV

The technology behind 3-D entertainment has come a long way since those “land in your lap” sci-fi shockers of the 1950s, which could be viewed only by theater-goers willing to wear dorky cardboard spectacles with red and blue lenses. And we’re not just talking about advances at the cineplex as evidenced by movies like Monsters vs.

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Jeff Dunham, Puppet Master

For most people, being caught in an enclosed space with either a terrorist or a ventriloquist would qualify as a hostage situation. But Jeff Dunham, a ventriloquist, is perhaps the most popular stand-up comedian in the U.S. And he broke through by playing straight man to a terrorist — a fiberglass one.

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