Karen Addington, chief executive of Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, has type-one diabetes.

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While Khosla worries healthcare domain expertise may stifle innovation, I see this type of experience as essential, providing the needed foundation for understanding problems and developing workable and relevant solutions.

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The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation is funding or cofunding approximately 50 trials in Type 1 diabetes, up from 5 in 2000.

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We had a lot of questions about how the Greater New Orleans area was being rebuilt post Katrina, what type of people the city was attracting and if there was a foundation from which we could start growing a game development community.

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It makes one wonder if some McClatchy shareholders wish they had been the sellers in the 2006 transaction, taken the proceeds and pumped it into the type of new media and journalism projects that are now the bailiwick of the Knight Foundation?

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The British Heart Foundation (BHF) advises that moderate intensity aerobic activity is the most effective type of activity for maintaining a healthy heart.

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Steve Humphries, British Heart Foundation professor of cardiovascular genetics at UCL, said: "Men who carried the E4 type are at higher risk of heart disease, but only if they are smokers".

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Overall, 32 states and many cities in the United States have passed some type of law prohibiting smoking in public spots. (You can check out the American Nonsmokers' Rights Foundation to find out if your local community has a ban.) In addition, England, France, Ireland, Italy, Norway, and Scotland have passed such bans.

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