Ségolène Royal
Ségolène Royal (Marie-Ségolène Royal) , 1953-, French politician, b. Dakar, Senegal. A graduate of the École Nationale d'Administration (1980) who worked as a special assistant (1982-88) to President François Mitterrand , she was first elected to the national assembly, as a Socialist, in 1988. She served as minister of the environment (1992-93), minister for school education (1997-2000), and minister for the family and childhood (2000-2002). In 2004 she was elected president of the Poitou-Charentes regional council. Especially personable and outgoing for a French politician, the media-savvy Royal was chosen in 2006 to be the Socialist party's candidate for the presidency, becoming the first woman to be a major party candidate for the post. Second after the first round of voting in Apr., 2007, she lost to Nicolas Sarkozy in the May runoff, and subsequently decided not to stand as a candidate for the national assembly.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Hibernation and cretinism
Newspaper article from: ; 11/28/2007; ; 277 words
; ...LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Hibernation and cretinism Byline: International Herald Tribune...that. Has Robb ever heard of "Alpine cretinism," a condition that made people lose...their cognitive development? Alpine cretinism, as the name implies, was endemic in...
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Constitutional cretinism.(Opinion & Editorial)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin; 3/18/2002; 700+ words
; Byline: Adrian E. Cristobal Civilian authority is, at all times, supreme over the military. The Armed Forces of the Philippines is the protector of the people and the State. Its goal is to secure the sovereignty of the State and the integrity of the national territory. - Art II, Sec. 3, The
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I think I have a kind of moral cretinism.
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Herald; 9/5/2004; ; 700+ words
; It's less glamorous than being a sociopath, but there's a part of my mind that just doesn't work properly. I'm not a person to go around feeling sorry about what I've done. It's not in me. I can't do it; Julie Burchill, Britain's most venomous journalist, has written a novel for teenagers about a
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La batalla de Nancy Carrasco contra el cretinismo. (investigadora mexicana que estudia las posibilidades de curar enfermedades como el cáncer de tiroides mediante el uso de yodo)(TT: Nancy Carrasco's battle against cretinism) (TA: Mexican researcher who studies the possibility of curing diseases such as thyroid cancer through the use of iodine)
Magazine article from: Contenido; 6/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; En 1991 una joven y desconocida investigadora mexicana llam la atencin de la comunidad cientfica internacional con sus descubrimientos sobre el metabolismo del yodo, indispensable para el desarrollo del sistema nervioso humano. El trabajo, dado a conocer en Canad, vali a Nancy Carrasco Queijeiro
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Iodine and neuropsychological development
Magazine article from: The Journal of Nutrition; 2/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...relationship is the condition of endemic cretinism, described from the Middle Ages and...The demonstration of the prevention of cretinism in a double-blind controlled trial...the causal role of iodine deficiency in cretinism by an effect on the developing fetal...
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The iodine factor in health and evolution.
Magazine article from: The Geographical Review; 1/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...terminology, a cretin,(1) afflicted by cretinism - the appalling condition that gave our...mental capacity, and millions suffer from cretinism. Although the physiological roots of...element typically suffer from goiter and cretinism. Goiter is an enlargement of the thyroid...
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The Neanderthal: A Modern Man With Disease?
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 5/24/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...suffered from chronic iodine deficiency and cretinism that caused the thick, curved bones...corresponds fairly closely to a pattern of cretinism common in the "goiter belts" of central...Neanderthals, said in an interview. "Cretinism leaves very distinctive marks on skeletons...
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Iodine should be routinely added to complementary foods1
Magazine article from: The Journal of Nutrition; 9/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...The most severe form of brain damage is cretinism characterized by gross mental retardation...and other neuromuscular retardation. Cretinism from iodine deficiency has now become...within the affected population than is cretinism. This fact has the important public...
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TINY LACK RAVAGES CHINESE : IODINE DEFICIENCY DAMAGES MILLIONS.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); 6/9/1996; 700+ words
; ...thousands with the overt handicaps of cretinism - resulting from iodine shortages during...deformities and severe retardation of cretinism. But research over the last two decades...visible damage. Even where goiter and cretinism are not apparent, iodine deficiency...
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Brain was small, but souped-up: controversial 'hobbits' may have had complex thoughts.(Anthropology)
Magazine article from: Science News; 4/25/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...presented evidence that LB1 did not suffer from cretinism, a growth disorder attributed to it last...skull or limb conditions associated with cretinism, Jungers said. People with cretinism generally have much larger brains than that...
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cretinism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
cretinism , condition produced in infants and children due to lack of thyroid hormone...iodine in the diet, or if the thyroid is diseased or surgically removed. Cretinism causes very serious retardation of physical and mental development; if...
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dwarfism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...completely normal except for size, is commonly called a midget. Cretinism is a type of dwarfism accompanied by mental retardation and...resulting from an insufficiency of thyroid hormone. Unlike cretinism and pituitary dwarfism (which are thought to be caused by...
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Thyroid Disease
Encyclopedia entry from: Complete Human Diseases and Conditions
...occurrence in developed countries. When hypothyroidism occurs in infancy and is not treated cretinism (KREET-in-izm) results. A child with cretinism has stunted growth and mental deficiency. Older children who become hypothyroid show slowing...
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Idiocy
Book article from: -Ologies and -Isms
...of being like a cow or ox, especially in the sense of being dull, stolid, and slow-witted. —bovine , adj. cretinism Medicine. a congenital deficiency of thyroid secretion causing deformity and idiocy. —cretinoid, cretinous...
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hypothyroidism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Biology
...basal metabolic rate , with tissue swelling and weight gain ( myxoedema ). In children thyroid hormone is required for development of the bones and nervous system, and hypothyroidism can result in cretinism . Compare hyperthyroidism .
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