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Chris Matthews Discusses "White Ethnic" Vote
Now that the dust has sort of settled from Junior Super Tuesday, and 24-hour cable news is no longer playing in my head while I sleep, one thing I heard Tuesday night just won't go away. I heard Chris Matthews of MSNBC talk about the "White Ethnic Vote" a group he described as white Americans who do not have a four-year college degree.
The use of the term "ethnic" to refer to someone's level of education boggles my mind.
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Celebrity Style: Rachel Bilson
Rachel Bilson left her house in an outfit that makes me want to know where she went! The actress stuck to her love of quirky dresses in a navy and white Phillip Lim silk dress with unique embellishments. Then she dazzled her feet with a pair of gold metallic Giuseppe Zanotti pumps.
Résumés With "White-Sounding" Names Have Better Success?
Difficult to pronounce last names might elicit some middle school teasing, and unfortunately name-based discrimination doesn't end once the days of playground recess are long gone. According to a study performed for the National Bureau of Economic Research, résumés with "white-sounding" names have a 50 percent greater chance of receiving a response from employers compared to applicants with African American names.
CNN Money spoke with a few job seekers with "ethnic-sounding" last names who are convinced their names are turning off employers from giving them a chance.
Microsoft Changes Race in Photo, Then Apologizes
If you're going to change someone's race on your corporate website (which you shouldn't!), you might want to do a better job with the Photoshop. Microsoft got itself in a bit of trouble when its Polish-based unit altered a photo on its website by replacing a black man's face with that of a white man's but forgetting to change the color of the man's hand.
Microsoft's US web site had the original photo of two men: one black, one Asian.
Casa Interview, Part II: Domino Founding Editor Deborah Needleman (and an Awesome Giveaway!)
Deborah Needleman, the founding editor of Domino, is a goldmine of savvy advice on decorating your home, honed from years of experience heading up the style-centric magazine as well as decorating her own home. You can read the first half of my interview with her here. Deborah's tips and thoughts on decorating continue in the second half of this interview.
L'Oreal in Hot Water For Racial Discrimination
"Because you're worth it" is L'Oreal's brand slogan — but in France, a few bad apples seemed to think only white Garnier hostesses were worth hawking their shampoo to customers.
An executive from Garnier, L'Oreal's beauty division, sent out a fax in 2000 instructing headquarters to find an all-white team of sales staff to promote Fructis Style. The code term?
L'Oréal Gets In Trouble, Again
L'Oréal isn't looking so good this week. The French cosmetics behemoth, which owns brands such as Maybelline, Shu Uemura, Kiehl's, Lancome, and Garnier, was found guilty of racial discrimination by La Cour de Cassation, the French equivalent of the Supreme Court. Court documents show that Garnier sales staff should be "bleu, blanc, rouge" — which describes the colors of the French flag but is coded shorthand for white French people.
Diabetes - type 2
In This Report- Highlights
- Introduction
- Causes
- Risk Factors
- Symptoms
- Screening Tests
- Treatment
- Lifestyle Changes
- Medications
- Long-Term Complications
- Emergency Complications
- Resources
- References
- Sitagliptin (Januvia), the first in a new class of diabetes drugs called DPP-4 inhibitors, was approved in 2006.
- Janumet, a 2-in-1 pill that contains both sitagliptin and metformin, was approved in 2007.
- These drugs are taken by mouth and may be more convenient for patients than exenatide (Byetta), a similar drug. DPP-4 inhibitors do not cause weight gain and may pose a lower risk for hypoglycemia than some other diabetes drugs.
Supreme Court Pick Brings Back Affirmative Action Debate
“Affirmative action standards are a bad way to pick one of the nine most influential jurists in the US."
Such is the reaction of affirmative-action opponent Richard Epstein to President Obama's nomination of Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court. Epstein and other critics believe that the president wants to chose "a daughter of Puerto Rican parents raised in Bronx public housing projects to become the nation's first Hispanic justice," instead of an accomplished jurist.
Scleroderma
In This Report- Highlights
- Introduction
- Symptoms and Complications...
- Causes
- Risk Factors
- Prognosis
- Diagnosis
- Treatment
- Medications
- Other Treatments
- Treatment for Raynaud's Phe...
- Treatment for Skin Thickeni...
- Treatment for Lung Complica...
- Treatment for Gastrointesti...
- Resources
- References
- Because significant depression can affect more than 50% of people with scleroderma, researchers say it may be beneficial for scleroderma patients to get routine screening for depression.
- Researchers have discovered a gene called connective-tissue growth factor (CTGF), which they say is more common in people with systemic scleroderma than in those without the disease.
- The prognosis for patients with systemic scleroderma has improved since the 1970s. Ten-year survival rates are up, and deaths from kidney crises have dropped. However, deaths from pulmonary fibrosis have increased during this time period.
- High-dose immunosuppressant therapy with cyclophosphamide significantly improved skin and overall function in patients with scleroderma.
- Evidence shows that intravenous iloprost given in progressively increasing doses can reduce the duration and frequency of Raynaud's phenomenon attacks.
- A potential new therapy using PVAC, a substance derived from the bacterium, Mycobacterium vaccae, can improve skin symptoms without causing significant side effects.
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