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Researchers explore diabetes
Fat
Excesses of it have been linked to high blood pressure, coronary diseases and recently to a disease that caused more than 32,000 deaths in 1890.
People who are overweight, especially those who carry excess weight above the waist, are more likely to develop diabetes, according to researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
While the effect of fat on diabetics is being investigated by Wisconsin researchers, many other problems linked with diabetes are being researched at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan.
THIS RESEARCH is done by scientists looking for the source of diabetes and an eventual cure for the disease.
Researchers have discovered that
obese people, particularly American men with "pot bellies," are more likely to develop diabetes.
ALTHOUGH MEN are more susceptible to the disease, according to the Wisconsin report, women who carry extra weight above the waist are also more susceptible.
Sixteen women, whose extra weight was distributed in the waist, chest and arms, were tested by the Wisconsin Center to have warning signs of diabetes.
The warning signs, which affect the body's ability to metabolize sugar, are high blood levels of glucose, insulin and fatty acids.
JON BARR, a KU resident associate of biochemistry and diabetes researcher, is investigating the effect of diabetes on kidneys.
BARR SAID there was an obvious difference between sections of mem-
brance from diabetic specimens "and from healthy subjects. He said this difference linked diabetes with kidney problems and possible kidney failure in patients."
ANOTHER RESEARCH program at the Med Center deals with the effect of diabetes on the cardiovascular system.
Ruben Bunag, professor of pharmacology at the Med Center, has linked diabetes with high blood pressure in laboratory rats. His findings indicate that diabetics could also have a risk of high blood pressure.
"Our research so far indicates that some of the effects on the cardiovascular system occur through diabetic reactions, which we theorize are caused by a malfunction in the brain," he said.
Diabetic researchers have theorized that the hypothalamus gland, located in the medulla oblongata of the brainstem, controls
'Abdication' reveals secrets
By ERLEEN J. CHRISTENSEN Contributing Reviewer
"THE ABDICATION" BY RUTH WOLLEF
Directed by Steven Vincent
Directed by Steven Vincent
Performances in the Inge Theatre:
Feb. 12, 13, 14—8 p.m.
Three queens, a king, a cardinal and the pope off stage. "The Abdication" packs the stage with powerful public figures, but it is private secrets—hidden hopes, fears and deeds—that explode on stage.
The plot is simple: Christina, recently-abducted queen of Sweden, has arrived at the Vatican. Azzolino, a cardinal who is in line for the papacy, is her confessor. It is he who must decide if her conversion to Catholicism is real, whether she ought to be allowed asylum at the Vatican.
"The Abdication" demands a great deal of Lisa G. Heffley and Tom Roberts as they play Christina and Azzolino, and the two perform together brilliantly. When Christina initially storms into the Vatican anteroom in which the play is set, she loses her position but lacking in royal majesty. But as Heffley develops the role of a woman torn by the conflicts between her masculine and feminine nature and plagued by nightmasks full of memories and fears, Heffley's
portrayal of Christina's character seems more and more suitable.
By the time Christina and Azzolino are locked in their struggle as two powerful but tormented people learning to trust and respect each other, Hefley's Christina and Roberts' Azzolino seem so right that the two no longer seem actors but the characters themselves.
Azolillo probes such questions as "Why did you never marry?" and "Why did you become a Catholic?" with the relentlessness of a Freudian psychologist, getting Christina to reveal memories and fears she never had articulated. And playwright Wolff has woven those memories and fears
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into flashback scenes, which director Steven Vincent stages extremely effectively, allowing the characters of memory to flow between the actions of Christina and Azolino without interruiting them.
found in these scenes with adviser and father-figure Oxensterna, and with childhood friends, Ebba, Charles and Magnus.
The conflict between the different parts of Christina's personality are woven in with these flashbacks. The play has not one, but three Christmas. As the play progresses, the Christmas are not merely the young girl-Tina, the young queen-Chris, and the abdicated queen-Christina, but the three aspects of a personality struggling for integration.
The short flashbacks are much more than necessary explanations of Christina's historical background. These vignettes of the childhood and youth of a queen give intimate glimpses into a woman's development. The answers to the questions that Azzolino asks Christina in the Vatican can be
The casting of the minor characters also is excellent. Gretchen Kehde as Tina is meek, submissive, feminine and good. Elizabeth L. Blankard as Chris is daring, self-confident and firm. Yet the iron-willed queen who says she would be king and appoints her rejected suitor, Charles, as her heir and successor, has a vulnerability much like that of the good little girl who must take her dead sister Azalea into the throne. The disparate sides of Christina's nature to the surface, the interaction between the
The rich marble sets look somber and grand; they compliment a fine play, well-acted and directed. Only the pendent for many students at University Theatre productions, detracts from the quality of "The Abdication."
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Cold spell blamed on Arctic system
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By JIM LEHNEI Staff Reporter
A high-pressure system stranded over Alaska, instead of the normal low-pressure one, is the main reason why the Lawrence area has had a winder, Joe Eagleman, professor of meteorology, said yesterday.
Eagleman, speaking at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries, said that the high-pressure system that usually gave the area a mild winter was much farther south giving Alaska relatively warm weather and causing subzero weather here.
"We've been experiencing a colder than normal winter," he said. "However, we've been lucky in the summer as far as snowstorms are concerned."
"Masurable snowfall on the ground is only three inches here compared to 20 inches in St. Louis and more than 40 inches in Minnesota. Surprisingly, to the south of us in Wichita there are nine inches on the ground, and some parts of Oklahoma have more snow that we do."
Eagleman said the bitterly cold winter was a result of a low-pressure system that had been in the area.
"Heavy snows have fallen as a consequence in the North Central states such as North Dakota and Minnesota and tornadoes have spawned in the southern states in Oklahoma, Arkansas and Mississippi," he said.
'Many times when it snows in the Lawrence area we have winds that come in from the east because the major storm is located to the south
Eagleman said that when forecasting snow, a meteorologist would look for the low-pressure area and be centered for the next 36 hours.
Joe Eagleman TRACEY THOMPSON/Kansan Staff
"We've been on the edge of a lot of snowstorms, and being in a cyclonic area for storms 'a storm or system of winds that rotate near a center of air atmosphere pressure," in Lawrence more difficult than on the coasts, because storm systems sometimes originate here," he said.
Eaglemen said that a westerly flow of air would bring relief from the recent boom of cold air, raising temperatures in the area, said the warm air from the south
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Forcasting inclement weather such as floods, tornadoes and blizzards has become easier, he said, because of more trained meteorologists. One thing that had pleased Eagleman was the increase in professional meteorologists that forecast the weather on television.
"I remember a few years back there were no trained meteorologists in the area at all."
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