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The evolution will continue. Because private companies manage most of the critical infrastructures of the developed world, market states will be forced to integrate the private sector into strategic planning. They will have to develop international patterns of cooperation--pooling intelligence, for instance--or lose the war against virtual states...
The quest to answer this double-sided question is in its earliest stages. Already, however, a series of fascinating insights into the biology of obesity has emerged. Behind our broadening behinds and widening waistlines, scientists say, lies a complex array of genes that, directly and indirectly, links our gut to...
Leptin, which exercises an influence on appetite and thermogenesis, is thought to be key to maintaining this balance. For as we layer on fat, we pump out more leptin, which signals the hypothalamus that it's time to accelerate energy output and brake caloric intake. The problem is, people who...
The urge to be your own skipper is spreading. Since the mid-'90s, the number of students in U.S. sailing schools has more than doubled, to almost 150,000. The number of schools accredited by the largest certification organization, the American Sailing Association (ASA), based in California, has grown 40...
That night, I visited the Double Nine Gallery, which hosts monthly exhibits of contemporary artwork, to meet up with my seaweed-artist friend, Yu. "I am so happy that the peasants took my seaweed," he said. "It adds the final step to the evolution of life symbolized in that artwork...