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...public health school has already outgrown its dated, overcrowded Longwood compound. It already faces a shortage of 100,000 square feet, a deficit that is projected to grow substantially over the coming years...
...lagging ability to attract top students and faculty in these areas is a product of what McKay Professor of Environmental Engineering Joseph J. Harrington said is a history of indifference to DEAS. Adminsitrators were perfectly content to let DEAS subsist as a small outpost in the FAS science compound along Oxford Street...
...which has set off a pharmaceutical feeding frenzy, because every compound scientists can identify as weight related represents a potential target for drug development. And any drug that can safely prevent or reduce weight gain is not only a potential blockbuster but a lifesaver as well...
Even more exciting is a compound that appears to attack obesity through both the brain and the gut. Called rimonabant, and developed by Paris-based Sanofi, it is entering the final stages of human testing. Like Axokine and leptin, rimonabant was designed to make the body feel full. But scientists were pleasantly surprised to find that it also lowered triglyceride levels 15% and raised good cholesterol 22%--far more than would have been expected from weight loss alone. There is also evidence that patients on rimonabant may become more sensitive to the action of insulin, which can halt the progression...
...Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and CIA director George Tenet. On May 13, DIA officials who worked with the I.N.C. abandoned their office in Baghdad. The next day, the Iraqis who had been working there brought three trucks into the compound to take away files and computers from the office. A confidant of Chalabi's says that by the time the U.S. ordered last week's raid, the I.N.C. had already removed its most sensitive intelligence documents...