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...Fed to obese rats and mice, fucoxanthin promoted the loss of abdominal fat by targeting a protein that increases the rate at which fat is burned. The chemists got their fucoxanthin from wakame, a tasty seaweed available in dried form in Asian groceries and natural-food stores. I like it in cucumber salad and soups. But don't expect to lose weight by simply adding wakame to your diet; you would have to eat a great deal of it to make any difference. Wait for further developments; the chemists say their research could lead to novel medications that may someday...
...huge fees for sports like NBA basketball and started stacking its lineup with niche events--bull riding, arena football, Champ Car racing. The PBR paid the network for airtime, guaranteeing that nbc wouldn't lose money if no one tuned in. As it turned out, audiences liked watching corn-fed young dudes cling to enraged animals for dear life. "People want to see a big bad som'bitch hoof the s___ out of somebody," says Jerry Nelson, a top bull owner. "They want to see a little blood and guts." They're usually not disappointed: 1 in 15 rides results...
...Banned: Fine Food And Fun" [Sept. 4], which referred to Chicago's foie-gras ban as a "loopy law," was disturbingly glib. Foie-gras production is excruciating for geese and ducks, which are force-fed through a tube inserted into their throats. Those that do not prematurely die in the process of being overfed become grossly overweight, and they struggle to walk, stand up, even breathe. It is not Chicago's new law that is outrageous but the inhumane luxury it prohibits...
...creation--are increasingly out of synch with what Americans are experiencing in their daily lives. For most people, wages are down because of inflation. Their "compensation" may be up because their employer pays more for their health care, but they can't buy milk with an insurance card. Even Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has called it "puzzling" that the boom hasn't shown up in people's paychecks, saying later that the evidence "is not very overwhelming" that wages will rise soon. [This article contains charts. Please see a hard copy or a pdf.] The big picture looks good...
...into a success. The company has now become two - Cantor Fitzgerald, an institutional brokerage company, and Bernard Gerald Cantor, a wholesale brokerage business. In August, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York added Cantor Fitzgerald as a primary dealer permitted to trade U.S. Government Securities with the New York Fed...