Allen & Unwin

Being mayor of Empire Falls was a full-time job with a part-time salary,

If chickens had any idea what was in store for them, they’d stay where they were in their eggs.

Good fences make good neighbors.

The terrible truth was that such slender gestures seemed even to Miles, at sixteen, both too much and too little, more than just about everyone else was willing to do but far less than conscience dictated.

it was a lot easier to forget a thousand things you wanted to remember than the one thing you wanted to lose sight of.

Just because things happen slow doesn’t mean you’ll be ready for them.

“Slow” works on an altogether different principle, on the deceptive impression that there’s plenty of time to prepare, which conceals the central fact, that no matter how slow things go, you’ll always be slower.

They showed that, as well as a little over double the risk of developing MS for children with the particular genetic make-up of having one or more HLA-DRB1*15 alleles (a

In a large prospective study of 332 children presenting to Canadian healthcare facilities with an episode of demyelination, researchers at the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children confirmed the strong associations of MS with genetic predisposition and low vitamin D status.53 They showed that, as well as a little over double the risk of developing MS for children with the particular genetic make-up of having one or more HLA-DRB1*15 alleles (a genetic marker for increased MS risk), for every 10 nmol/L lower the vitamin D level was, there was an 11 per cent increase in risk of going on to develop MS.

further study showed that PwMS had significantly lower levels of vitamin D than people without MS.54 The authors showed that 61 per cent of PwMS had low vitamin D levels, and that many even had osteoporosis and muscle pain due to the low vitamin D levels