There are story book Marys including "Mary, Mary, quite contrary"; historical Marys, including the Magdalenes and queens, Marys of the legitimate and illegitimate stage?an endless procession of them, sometimes masquerading as Mary Annes, Mary Elizabeths, or Mary Louises. It was one of the latter who recently challenged our interest?first incidentally, then temporarily, and finally permanently. ...

Polarized topics often spark discussion and debate on social media. Recent studies have shown that polarized debates have a specific clustered structure in the endorsement network, which indicates that users direct their endorsements mostly to ideas they already agree with. Understanding these polarized discussions and exposing social media users to content that broadens their views is of param...

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The dogma regarding the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes has evolved over the last decade to view the islet -cell as the final determinant of whether glucose tolerance is normal or abnormal (1). While obesity and insulin resistance have reached epidemic proportions around the world, the presence of an appropriate compensation of insulin secretion (“healthy -cells”) allows daylong glycemia to be ...