This difference between popular and tragic religion arises in part because poets are more inclined to attribute evil to their gods, but also because poets, when they assumed their superdivine narrative posture, are in a better position than ordinary people to proffer detailed explanations of individual deaths.

At its 1933 session, the Kansas legislature provided for funding outstanding bills and floating debts of those cities which could not make payment by a fixed date. By this stroke of its imagination, the legislature lawed all Kansas cities onto a cash basis and admonished them to stay there.

Feets, don't fail me now!

Finally, there is an evidence that natural products of the putative anti-diabetic plants milk-thistle (Silybum marianum), and jiaogulan (Gynostemma pentaphyllum) stimulate insulin secretion, inhibit gluconeogenesis, or reduce triglycerides and insulin resistance [25 –27 ].