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...effect on diabetes, Kahn said, but fortunately, when people lose weight, they tend to lose abdominal fat first. Kahn’s work, said Gorden, is more about understanding the fundamental “why” of risk. “We need to keep searching for central mechanisms that control why abdominal obesity confers so much risk,” he said. Kahn is now exploring the questions that his findings have raised. “What we are trying to do now is to show if transplanting fat would actually protect you against diabetes or bad effects...
With Japan's recession deepening, the country's central bank could intervene in currency markets for the first time since 2004, in a bid to prevent further appreciation of the yen - a rise that is hammering Japan's export-driven businesses...
...recent strength to the unwinding of the yen carry trade, referring to the widespread practice by investors over the past several years of borrowing yen at a low interest rate and investing the funds in currencies paying higher interest rates. That was an easy way to make money until central bankers in the U.S. and other countries began slashing borrowing costs as the credit crunch hit and their economies faltered. The carry trade "is a very strong and powerful movement, and it's difficult to stop it," Sasaki says. "I think that Japanese officials understand that, and that...
...also felt in Slovakia, Slovenia and the Czech Republic, where deliveries from Russia dropped 70% or more. France and Italy also said that Russian gas flows were down 70% to 90%, though like most West European nations, both have larger reserves and are less dependent on Russian supplies than central and East European states...
...Ahmet Davutoglu, Turkey's chief foreign policy architect and Erdogan's top adviser, summarized Turkey's new strategy as "zero problems with its neighbors." The reclusive Davutoglu wrote last year: "A central country with such an optimal geographic location cannot define itself in a defensive manner. It should be seen neither as a bridge country, which only connects two points, nor a frontier country, nor indeed as an ordinary country, which sits at the edge of the Muslim world or the West...