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...England really knows how to dish it out. We already knew that dark, blustery winters made you depressed. Now it turns out darkness might also encourage binge eating. Joseph A. Kasof—a researcher at University of California, Irvine who earned his Ph.D. at Harvard—recently conducted a study of about 400 UC students that found darkness “correlated positively with bulimic behavior in restrained eaters.” In the dark, he found, these people tend to binge more than purge. Kasof says that dim light might not be the only cause of seasonal...
...fellow doctor whose patients were dying from a mysterious disease, it didn't take Gui long to make a diagnosis. The stories were all the same: first the husband would fall ill, then his wife, and after a few months, both would be dead, covered in sores and dark, wine-colored blotches. Gui had stumbled on a full-fledged AIDS epidemic, something he had only read about in medical journals. While in school, he says quietly, "I had no interest to study AIDS because I thought AIDS cannot become a serious medical problem in China. I was wrong...
...almost on cue, the hard-liners' dark fears were realized: within a week, a June 19 online article by the New Republic quoted an unnamed U.S. envoy, who was clearly Wilson, alleging that the Administration knew the yellowcake story "was a flat-out lie" but had used it in the prewar claims anyway. Not long after, Fitzgerald alleges, Libby spoke with his deputy about the article, and the two aides discussed whether information about Wilson's trip might be shared with the press. Libby demurred, saying such a move would cause "complications at the CIA," but added that he "could...
...Shocking? Maybe not. Globalization's dark side is remarkably well illuminated, at least in fragments, and anyone who reads the news is somewhat inured to facts such as these. But just because we read about them on a daily basis doesn't mean that we understand the larger context. Indeed, it's not obvious what all of the above phenomena have in common. Sure, they all involve illegal activities that cross national borders. But is there an underlying trend that explains why organ smuggling, money laundering and weapons trafficking have all grown dramatically in the last decade...
...first event on the program, Johannes Brahms’ “Tragic Overture,” is a story of unfulfilled expectations—a dark and nervous piece of music haunted by lyrical dreams of tenderness. Like Beethoven’s third symphony, the “Tragic Overture” opens with two solitary chords. Unlike Beethoven, however, whose opening to his third symphony is bold and heroic, Brahms’ second chord is built unsteadily on a note one step above the tonic and is missing the third entirely. This foreshadows the unmistakable loneliness and emotional...