For more info on Wholesale Nike Air Force Ones Click Here air jordan 10,The Hard Truth About Diabetes Many readers applauded our Sept. four story on diabetes. Your article was straightforward and educational, and I hope people will take it to heart, wrote a nurse. Several individuals vowed to begin taking preventive measures at as soon as; 1, after studying the story, went for a walk. A mother wrote and shared her ordeal: Try watching your child use a lancing device on his sweet small hands numerous times a day, when your parenting instinct screams, 'Don't touch that, it is sharp!' 　　Diagnosing Diabetes I lastly recognized that I'm opening the door to poisoning by sugar and becoming diabetic. Your stories The Growing Diabetes Crisis and Helping to Break Poor Habits had been what I needed to study (Society & the Arts, Sept. four). Unlike many technical articles, these had been short, clear and informative. I've turned over a new leaf (of lettuce) and will never again add sugar to my diet. At the age of 55, I began to have blurred vision and unquenchable thirst. Now I have an informed understanding of my doctor's prognosis that I had opened the door for diabetes. Because of these excellent articles, I have a guide to follow each day.Carole Nelson--Ventura, CaliforniaWhen I read about the jump in the incidence of diabetes over the last decade, I looked at the potato chip in my hand in horror, put on my shoes and went to get a walk. Thanks for a timely reminder.Elizabeth Ray--Cedar Rapids, IowaDiabetes is so widespread in our part of the world, yet so little is known about it. In the rural areas it often goes undiagnosed. Your story informs people about causes and preventive measures, and I thank you. In the long run those educated about the disease may help fight it in our rural communities. I hope that science progresses fast enough to find a cure, but after learning about the disease and knowing people in my family who are diabetic, I've started taking preventive measures.Bikal Kumar Pokharel--Katmandu, NepalI found your post objective and truly informative, but it made me cry. I am diabetic and have been so for eight years. I am almost 18 years old, have learned to live with my illness and desperately want to have a great life. I try to be optimistic, yet when I read phrases such as the silent killer and that people diagnosed at a young age could have terrible complications by the age of 30 or 40, I got really scared. I am well aware of the dangers I am in, but I did not want to be reminded.Hara Tsami--Messene, GreeceDiabetes has long been a misunderstood disease, and there is a true need to educate the public. Since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention statistics you cite had been limited to individuals 18 years and older, they did not include the children who also have type-2 diabetes and, more important to me, the 1 million Americans who have type 1, an equally serious and complicated form of the disease. Each year more than 30,000 Americans are newly diagnosed with type 1. As the father of a daughter (diagnosed at 10, now 32) with this devastating form of the disease, I know firsthand the complications she can expect in her life- time if we do not find a cure. While insulin does allow individuals with type 1 to live, it is not a cure and does not prevent life-threatening complications like blindness, kidney failure, heart attack, stroke and limb amputations. In order to survive, my daughter must take daily multiple injections of insulin and test her blood by pricking her finger six or more occasions each day. While trying to balance insulin injections with the amount of their food intake, people with type 1 must constantly be prepared for potential hypoglycemic (low blood sugar) and hyperglycemic (high blood sugar) reactions, both of which are life-threatening.Ross CooleyChairman of the BoardJuvenile Diabetes Foundation InternationalNew York, New YorkI applaud you for your article on diabetes. I am a registered nurse who deals daily with patients suffering the numerous complications of the disease. It is unfortunately 1 that many individuals take lightly, not understanding how serious its long-term consequences can be. Your article was simple and educational, and I hope people will study it and take it to heart. I wish all newly diagnosed diabetics could come and see some of the patients I've taken care of who are blind, bilateral-leg amputees in kidney failure because they let their diabetes control them.Heidi S. Vawdrey--Provo, UtahThank you for such a timely and informative article. Last year both my parents had been diagnosed with type-2 diabetes and would often pose questions I couldn't answer. Thanks to NEWSWEEK, I'm more informed and in a better position to help.Rose Mas--Sunrise, Florida?Gracias, Intel? Your article A Silicon Republic tried to portray the Intel company as the savior of the Costa Rican economy (Business, Aug. 28). In reality the situation is scandalous. Here is a rich and powerful company that doesn't pay taxes to a country that desperately needs the money. These are old practices. And experience shows this type of policy only deepens the dependency of Latin America on the United States while widening the gap between rich and poor countries. It is shameful that multinational companies take advantage of the desperation of Third World countries.Oscar Mejia--Sagamihara, JapanCosta Rica has not been called a banana republic for about 50 years, and the introduction of Intel has certainly not made it into a Silicon Republic. You should have described this nation as one of the few Latin American countries that pride themselves on their truly democratic institutions, the absence of armies and their high level of educational, industrial, economic and social statistics. It is true that the 2,000 workers of Intel enjoy higher wages than any worker did a few years ago, but so do all the other workers. The lowest classes have been able to improve their lives because of Costa Rica's upward-moving economy. But Intel had nothing to do with that. We resent being called a silicon republic.Alice Raine--Alajuela, Costa RicaRussia's Troubled Waters Vladimir Putin, a man who built his political prestige on his career as a KGB officer, apparently didn't care enough to shorten his vacation, return to the Kremlin and take care of the ongoing Kursk tragedy (Into Troubled Waters, Europe, Sept. 4). Whether he likes the idea or not, Putin has let the Russian military down.Bernard J. Henry--Garches, FranceAccepting History Your story Japan's Art of War was excellent (Society & the Arts, Sept. four). It is sad that so many artists willingly supported the war effort by drawing militaristic propaganda pictures. This story sheds light on a dark period in history and helps us to face our past. But certainly reluctance to confront history is not a Japanese monopoly. Remember the much-scaled-down Enola Gay exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution?Tetsuo Aoki--Yokosuka, JapanI don't blame the painters who did work in praise of the Japanese Empire. They had families to protect. Youth who criticize war supporters don't understand what happened to dissidents.Naomi Haga--Osaka, JapanYour post quotes the motto put a lid on something that stinks. With such sayings, Japanese people will never confront their past. And today's society is built with the same debilitating values that brought the darkest periods of history: blind discipline and respect to hierarchy, incapacity to face and discuss problems, and lack of personal opinion. When a nation remains passive when faced with propaganda, nostalgia for imperialism and pure-race ideology, it is an accomplice to the modern-day problems.Franck Peret--Tokyo, JapanThe suggestion that the biography Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan would be myth-shattering for most Japanese is not only misleading, it is incorrect. What Herbert P. Bix writes about has been widely known in Japanese-language documents for decades. Implying that most Japanese had been unaware of the responsibility of Emperor Hirohito to get a war fought in his name is an insult to their intelligence.Ryann Connell--Tokyo, JapanThe Extreme Environment Your post If You Can't Take the Heat (Society & the Arts, Aug. 7) clearly describes a pattern of increasingly frequent extreme climatic events in numerous parts of the world. However, you fail to acknowledge explicitly that these global changes have a probable human cause. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, such occurrences may be a symptom of increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere due largely to the burning of fossil fuels. I was disappointed that you did not address the possibility of mitigating global climatic change by reducing carbon dioxide emissions. As major carbon dioxide polluters, developed nations like the United States do have the power to prevent irreversible changes to our climate.Andy JoyceResearch ClimatologistUniversity of DurhamDurham, EnglandU.S. Troops in Japan As an American airman stationed in Japan I was troubled to study your rather sensational and inaccurate account of U.S. service members on the island of Okinawa (So Long, Soldiers, Asia, Jul. 24). Rather than make us out to be uneducated, alcoholic rubes on a two-year tour with nothing better to do than fight and impregnate local women, you should have talked to the scores of servicemen and servicewomen who are bettering themselves through off-duty college education, volunteering with orphanages and beautification projects and giving everyday assistance to the Okinawan community. And while the sidebar on fatherless children is a sad one, what about all the successful intercultural marriages between Okinawan women and servicemen? Aren't there a lot of fatherless children in the States as well? While the actions of a few members of our armed services have tarnished our image, we are not all ignorant troublemakers.Brendan C. Vargas--Misawa, JapanI am totally against any reduction or withdrawal of U.S. troops from Japan. Japanese people born following World War II have never experienced a compulsory draft or any kind of military draft, and I could never endure the idea that our beloved ones would be sent to the battlefield. This may sound very rude but, to me, U.S. troops are mercenary soldiers. They are indispensable, and we are obliged to cover any necessary cost for it.Yuko Nakano--Tokyo, JapanPortraits of Asia I feel very honored to be mentioned in your article Women on the Rise in the NEWSWEEK Special Issue The New Asia. (Jul. 25) However, you give me too much credit. I am not the only one who is revolutionizing attitudes toward museums and promoting the idea of corporate and individual philanthropy, which is new to Indonesia. A whole group of individuals has been involved in doing this. Also, the Indonesian Archives Building Gajah Mada is not our leading history museum. That honor must surely go to the Indonesian National Museum.Tamalia AlisjahbanaExecutive Director,Indonesian Archives Building Gajah MadaJakarta, IndonesiaIn your post titled NGOs about new idealism in Asia, NEWSWEEK described Malaysian society as conservative. But I disagree. It is not uncommon, especially among the Malaysian Chinese women, to have sexual relationships with a host of men prior to tying the final knot. Being affluent, these women have become the trendsetters in the city. I think it is only a matter of time before their lifestyle catches on among other races and becomes socially tolerable. So, perhaps we are turning out to be a conservatively promiscuous society, but to label us conservative is a gross misstatement.F. J. Lutz--Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaIt is with agitation and sadness that I study NEWSWEEK's post on the apathy of Filipino youth, Where Can I Park? I am a member of the Filipino youth culture and, trust me, some of us still join protest marches that bring issues to the government's attention. Student activism may not be as fiery as it was in the old days, but it does still exist. I disagree with your portrayal of our generation as self-centered, materialistic and shallow. There is a considerable section of the population whose lives are hedonistic, but most of those Yuppies are blinded by the trappings of newfound wealth and independence.Michelle I. Claveria--Quezon City, PhilippinesNew Ideas, Old Ideology Will the youthful Chinese with M.B.A.s now be allowed to exercise their expertise to the fullest in their country where elders presume to possess wisdom and crush those with contrary? Is China wise enough to let its young create a dynamic future?Michael Driver--Ichihara, JapanAssessing Europe's Change Denis MacShane, a labour member of Parliament, thinks reduced deficits, tax cuts and discouraging dependence were the ideas of Bill Clinton and Tony Blair (Cool Eyes on the Prize, World View, Sept. four)? Everyone knows the ideology came from the leadership of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher.Robert Bunker--Hong KongTwenty years ago American and European politics had been indeed miles apart. Europe was still debating, albeit softly, which political system it would ultimately adopt. America was going through Reaganomics. But the real revolution was actually the 1988 electoral plot used by Francois Mitterrand to get re-elected. 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During our week in the tiny emirate, the team debriefed more than 150 sailors and Marines who participated in the rescue and recovery efforts after the crash of the Gulf Airbus (The Crash of Flight 072, World Affairs, Sept. 4). Most arrived at the crash site with hopes of rescuing survivors and within minutes threw themselves into the grim task of retrieving bodies and body parts from the hot waters of the Persian Gulf. While hundreds watched, these brave warriors worked throughout the night to beat the first rays of the scorching Arabian sun. What they saw and touched will linger in their memories for a lifetime. The crash occurred at the beginning of the Muslim weekend, when these men and women had already prepared to get a few hours of rest from their awesome daily responsibilities. Yet there wasn't a single report of hesitation when they were called into the effort. 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