Between 1987 and 1996, the incidence of type 2 diabetes rose by nine percent per year, according to the American Diabetes Association.

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This February, the sales of DRAM memory chips, a type used extensively in PCs, rose by nearly 24% compared with the previous month, as prices continued to rise.

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When men and women with the same type of cancer were compared, that difference rose to more than 12 percent.

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This type of scenario is what played out in Europe in 2011-2012 when rates rose on the debt of Greece, Portugal, Spain and Italy.

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