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What gets neuroscientists excited is that most of these digestive hormones seem to affect the same group of neurons in the hypothalamus, a subsection of the brain that acts as a kind of master regulator of some of our more basic instincts--hunger, thirst, sleep, sex. That means if PYY fails to be a good candidate for a new antiobesity drug, researchers may find another target in the brain that works better. Alternatively, studying PYY may help with the opposite problem--loss of appetite--which so often affects cancer patients and people with AIDS...
Summers said that while he did not know the specifics of all of the alleged improprieties, he did not think the controversy would affect Rubin’s ability to serve Harvard...
Bush may cling to his belief that the market's woes won't affect the basic soundness of the economy, but he knows from his father's experience that politicians who don't appear to take voters' pocketbook fears seriously pay for their callousness at the polls. "This President is acutely aware of the impact of the economy, both on regular Americans and on Presidents," says Mark McKinnon, a campaign 2000 veteran who still advises Bush. "Americans fundamentally understand a President can't move the markets, but they want to be assured that he cares about it and is doing...
...time for mismanagement, and people accept it. But Brussels is seen as a foreign land. It is therefore an inviting target. That would change if there were elections.'' Well, more democracy might dampen some of the criticism, but as long as the Commission continues to make decisions that affect the lives of millions, Brussels will remain the place Europeans love to hate...
...neither the adulation of the masses nor the authority of his predecessors. It is the thousands of mayors, governors, Communist Party chiefs and other functionaries from China's 32 provinces who have become the nation's new strongmen. "Whether Jiang or Hu is in power, it doesn't affect my life," says Kevin Qiang, a 34-year-old accountant in the eastern city of Hangzhou. "The only people I care about are the leaders in Hangzhou...