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...move will be Baldwin’s first extended stay back in his home state since he left for college. At Harvard, Baldwin was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and following graduation, he was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford...
...returned to sender - it's a real headache for many shoppers. "We had major problems with UPS. The items would not get delivered and sometimes the notices didn't get delivered," says Alexey Veraksa, a biology professor at the University of Massachusetts, who is one of easyQube's beta testers and a regular customer of Amazon.com...
...Karsenty's team conducted a series of experiments with eight strains of mice, including some genetically altered to lack osteocalcin and some engineered to overeat. He found that osteocalcin significantly impacts how the body handles glucose, its primary fuel, in three ways: by raising the number of insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas, by directly boosting the output of those cells, and by raising the body's sensitivity to insulin...
Finding a substance that increases beta cells, says Karsenty, "is a holy grail for diabetes research. If what's true for mice proves true for humans, "then we have inside us a hormone that does precisely this." In mice that are programmed to overeat and mice that are fed fatty diets, high levels of osteocalcin prevented both obesity and diabetes. Karsenty is now examining whether giving diabetic mice osteocalcin will reverse the disease...
...newest people search site to launch is Spock, which received $7 million in venture capital financing last December, and will come out of its invitation-only beta version on Aug. 8. Aside from trolling the big social networks to populate its database, it also searches blogs, Yahoo! profiles, Wikipedia, and company sites to identify both you and other "related" people. (It lists Al Pacino, for example, as being related to Matt Damon and George Clooney.) To improve accuracy, the site lets users vote on all the information it has teased out in tags, such as "male", "Italian-American", "actor...