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...hormones leptin and insulin are longer-term signals. Produced by fat cells, leptin helps manage just how much fat you store around your organs and under your skin through a complex feedback loop. If your fat deposits start to shrink--for example, when you lose weight--the amount of leptin in your body falls, a situation that the brain interprets as a result of starvation. The whole system of chemicals and neurological impulses shifts in an attempt to get the body to burn fewer calories so that it can regain the weight. The greater the weight loss, the stronger...
...capitalists (VCs) have pumped $339 billion into start-ups; these companies have created 10.1 million jobs and collected $1.8 trillion in sales. But stars tend to flame out as quickly as they ignite. By the time the Internet-bubble burst, "vulture capitalists" were tainted as part of the lunatic feedback loop that sent valuations of newly public companies into the stratosphere. After three years of retrenchment, the community of some 900 U.S. investment firms is eager to lend a hand to what it hopes will be the next generation of giants...
...interviews. (Minors Trias and DeGarmo, 16, also spend three hours a day with a tutor.) But in ways subtle and more blatant, the singers are also getting persona coaching. While they ultimately make their own decisions, they get advice on their song choices and performance to counter the judges' feedback, which often amounts to personal critiques: that DeGarmo is too girlish or London too staid. On one shopping trip for show-night clothes--the Idols get $450 a week for duds--stylist Miles Siggins encouraged London to "funk up" her look, saying that she sometimes mistook boring for classy. Conversely...
...Does Bush Really Get Us?" [MAY 3], columnist Joe Klein described the President as a political pitchman, dedicated to conning the public, ignoring criticism. Bush dismisses contradictory feedback and reinforces his original message by repeating the same talking points. The President and his handlers know very well that there are ample numbers of customers willing to buy their shallow rhetoric. Simplicity trumps relevance much too often, and there are far too many uncritical Americans who remain susceptible to the White House sales job. ANDREW CLARKE Harleysville, Penn...
...students and faculty scatter for the summer months, the report’s timing could not be worse. It leaves little room for meaningful opposition, particularly given that Kirby and other administrators have given students and faculty few hints as to how (if at all) they plan to solicit feedback and what process the report must go through before it is implemented. If the secrecy of the process used to create the report is any indication, we may not even be told about the feedback process before the feedback period is finished. Ka-ching, indeed...