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...every day that scientists uncover an unexpected new role for an old, familiar body part. That's why a paper published in the current issue of Cell is generating so much buzz. A team led by Dr. Gerard Karsenty, chairman of the department of genetics and development at Columbia University Medical Center, found that the skeleton plays a powerful role in the regulation of blood sugar and fat deposits. The discovery, made through an elegant series of experiments in mice, could have important implications for treating and preventing type 2 diabetes and obesity - two conditions that are exploding around...
...BUZZ States balked over the $11 billion tab, but a bigger issue may have been civil liberties: activists are worried that the card would let the government track citizens too closely...
Talese's comments produced a buzz in the audience, made up of budding writers and journalists as well as successful authors and national magazine writers who are drawn to the annual conference as speakers or participants. (Talese has been a good friend of the conference through several years, which is sponsored by the University of North Texas, the Dallas Morning News, Texas Monthly and others...
...Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” debuted in England in June 1997 and generated immediate buzz. According to a 1997 review of the novel in British newspaper The Guardian, author J.K. Rowling sold her manuscript to her UK publisher Bloomsbury for ?100,000, and less than a month later, she had attracted movie offers from two Hollywood studios...
...Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary, the publishing juggernaut that has spawned one sequel and will soon be a movie. The single woman is TV's It Girl as well, not just on Sex and the City, the smash HBO series in the midst of its third buzz-producing season, but also on a growing number of network shows focused on strong, career-minded single women, such as Judging Amy and Providence...