Word: feds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...separate study, Canadian researchers fed twelve pairs of identical twins 1,000 calories above their normal daily intake for 84 days out of a 100- day period. Weight gains ranged from 4 kg to 13 kg (9 lbs. to 29 lbs.). But the difference in the amount gained was much less between twins than between subjects who were not siblings. Concludes Claude Bouchard, a professor of exercise physics at Quebec's Laval University: "It seems genes have something to do with the amount you gain when you are overfed." Some sets of twins transformed the extra calories into mostly...
...Nicaraguan election in February, "everyone here hoped the resistance would win, but only Sununu really believed it and said so," recalls Robert Gates, the deputy national security adviser. When intelligence experts predicted victory for the Sandinista government, Sununu argued that they must be missing something: Nicaraguans had to be fed up with their crashing economy, even though under such a repressive regime they would be afraid to tell pollsters the truth. During Bush's morning intelligence update on the Friday before the election, a CIA briefer again predicted a Sandinista victory, and Sununu puckishly bet him an ice-cream sundae...
Kenya may be losing its allure for investors, however. Fed up with rampant corruption and maddening excesses of bureaucracy, businessmen -- both foreign and local -- are thinking twice. According to a Nairobi-based U.S. official, there have been few major foreign investments in Kenya in the past decade. Instead, there has been significant disinvestment. An economic downturn will be especially painful, since business is already expanding too slowly to generate sufficient jobs for the population, which is multiplying by a phenomenal 3.7% a year, one of the highest rates in the world...
Robbins is fed up, as well he might be, with the murderous tribalism that so often is the public face of organized religion. He sets in motion an American tel-evangelist whose septic inspiration it is to blow up the Dome of the Rock, the holy Muslim shrine in Jerusalem, thus bringing on World War III, the Second Coming of Christ and Judgment...
...with five more scores of its own. The most spectacular goal of the afternoon was recorded by Joslin. Berkery began the play around the Big Red goal when she passed to midfielder Liz Hansen. Hansen turned the ball over to Ceci Clark, who found attacker French. French fed the awaiting Joslin on the wing before Joslin rifled a shot that...