Word: darkness
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...Adults When you're struggling to button your pants around your ever expanding waistline, it probably doesn't occur to you to wonder whether your body fat is brown or white. But perhaps you should. Researchers have long known that brown fat, so called because it is packed with dark-hued mitochondria (the engines that feed cells with energy), actively breaks down sugar into heat and consumes a lot more energy than white fat does. In other words, brown fat burns energy instead of storing it. However, researchers also known that while brown fat is abundant in rodents and newborns...
...English-language rights to Jiang Rong's Wolf Totem, a coming-of-age tale set in Inner Mongolia. It was a record sum for a Chinese novel. In 2008, the same publishing house issued, amid much brouhaha, Zhu Wen's I Love Dollars, a lively look at the dark side of China's boom. And it has just announced plans to bring more Chinese writers to the attention of international readers by expanding its Beijing operations...
...Boy” opens on three teens—Ron, Rick, and Ruthie Taylor—preparing to get just a little bit closer to nature in the dark environs of a local cave, but they are promptly interrupted by the appearance of the show’s namesake, played by Walter B. Klyce ’10. After the confused cave creature bites young Ruthie (Maya S. Sugarman), he is taken to the home of the dashing and devilish Dr. Thomas Parker (Adam M. Lathram), where his charming wife Meredith (Megan L. Amram ’10) and daughter...
While humorous, “Bat Boy” also features its share of gory and dark moments, aided by such props as knives, syringes, and, of course, blood. “‘Bat Boy’ is already a dark comedy,” says executive producer Katherine R. McNicol ’12, “but our show is going to take that part to the extreme...
...highly unusual step, President Arroyo - a hard-working but unloved leader - is running for a congressional seat in her family's home province of Pampanga, which is being specially vacated by her son. Some suspect a dark plot to keep Arroyo in power under a new political system being pushed by her allies. For her part, Arroyo insists public service is "emblazoned in my DNA." The odds are she will win the seat...