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...January the three countries made a formal proposal to CITES, seeking permission to sell about 30 tons of ivory a year exclusively to Japan, where ivory is used primarily to carve the personalized seals known as hankos. With only a single customer to absorb all their ivory, there would be only a single importing country to monitor. A panel of CITES experts investigated and found that, on balance, "the proposal will have a beneficial impact on elephant conservation...
...Time to Absorb...
...gives students a chance to extend themselves. They can sit back and absorb the courses they're taking not as a series of lectures, but as an integrated whole and start to see their purpose," he says. "It's pretty simple: during reading period you work like mad, play like mad and do a little bit of everything...
...diet-in-a-pill, to be marketed as Xenical, works by disabling pancreatic enzymes that help the intestines absorb the fat in foods. The drug produces "a kind of intestinal aversion" to fat, explains Dr. Jules Hirsch of Rockefeller University, an FDA adviser. "Patients learn there are consequences to eating more...
Consequences, indeed. Fat that isn't absorbed has to go somewhere, and orlistat users find out in a hurry just where. Among the drug's less elegant side effects are loose stools and oily intestinal leakage. Moreover, about 20% of those who take orlistat absorb not only less fat but also fewer nutrients--particularly vitamins D and E and beta carotene...