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...Adams, professor of cardiovascular genetics at the University of Utah School of Medicine and lead author of the new study. "The interesting thing is that the resolution of diabetes happens within a few weeks following surgery, long before patients have lost their weight." Like some other researchers in the field, Adams believes that the surgery triggers other biological mechanisms, separate from weight loss - perhaps an interruption of a crucial biochemical pathway or a change in the release of certain hormones in the stomach or small intestine - that may have powerful effects on diabetes...
...Robert Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle East, is TIME.com's intelligence columnist and the author of See No Evil and, most recently, the novel Blow the House Down
While Iowa Republicans may be open to his candidacy, Thompson's late entry into an already crowded field of eight of candidates may present a logistical challenge, said Cary Covington, an associate professor of American politics at the University of Iowa. "He's looking at trouble because Iowa's a caucus state," Covington said. "Caucuses are won by grassroots organizing among county party officials. The other Republican candidates have long been busily getting these party officials to choose up sides and I don't know how many are left as free agents...
...People like to think the environment is something out there, not connected to them," says Lorin Lindner, a Los Angeles psychologist who specializes in the emerging field of ecopsychology. "But we are not divorced from this biosphere. The more you learn, you realize that squirrels are part of a greater environment, that we are all connected. When you get one strand of this awareness, you start worrying...
...global environmental conditions worsen, many people are recognizing that there are serious problems with the way we relate to the environment," says Swift. "People are drawn to a field like this as a way to help us connect with the environment. They realize there is a potential healing relationship between humans and the natural world...