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While Kenny's research can be read to suggest that simple long-term exposure to enticing foods leads to obesity and reduces the ability to obtain pleasure, there's actually at least one other major factor at play. Consider the living conditions of the rats in the study: solitary cages. Like humans, rats are highly social animals that suffer when deprived of contact with others. But in the experiment, the rats were not only isolated from other rats, but were also given no toys or exercise wheels; their diet options were either monotonous rat chow or cheesecake and bacon...
Ciardiello’s bat had been a major factor in Holy Cross’ recent wins and made an appreciable impact last night with three hits and four RBI. When he scored a run of his own later in the inning, Ciariello put his team up 4-0, still with no outs in the bottom of the first...
Similarly for Lawrence D. Arbuthnott ’10, who will be working in a law firm in Paris, previous experience overseas played a factor in his job search. “I studied in France spring of junior year, but I wasn’t planning to go abroad in particular,” he says. “The offer came, and it was more luck of the draw.” Arbuthnott is interested in law and hoping that the position will give him a better sense of what he would like to do in the future...
...School of Public Health encouraged donors and grant applicants to factor in the indirect costs of research—including not insubstantial expenses such as heating and electricity—which cut back on expenditures paid for by the school itself...
Neal emphasized that the third phase will be a long-term process—a process for which, some professors said, Smith’s centralized oversight is now the key factor...