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...person's ideal weight, which remains more or less constant throughout adult life. Whenever a person loses weight, a portion of the brain called the hypothalamus responds by increasing the appetite and slowing the metabolism so that the body can store more fat. By contrast, when a person gains weight, the hypothalamus decreasses appetite and speeds metabolism. However, the brain does not seem to work as hard to ward off weight gain as it does to combat weight loss; overeating can overload the system. Moreover, the discovery of an obesity gene suggests that many people inherit a tendency to maintain...
This weekend's games against Vermont tonight and Dartmouth on Saturday will close out the Crimson's up-and-down first half of the season, and the team views the two games as an opportunity to gain a bounce going into the critical second half of the season...
...Tonight we got to see what a hardened championship team looks like," Harvard Coach Frank Sullivan said. "They're clearly better than last year. They're at a new level. As much film as we watch, we still didn't gain an appreciation for what they could do until we saw them live...
...flow of cash southward. And though devaluation would have had the same effect in a pre-NAFTA world, NAFTA's lower trade barriers would magnify it. But whether this is bad news depends on which side of the NAFTA debate you bought to begin with: Is Mexico's gain America's loss, or is trade a non-zero-sum game, in which both sides win more than they lose? Events of 1994 tend to support the latter case...
...bourgeois concern, cold comfort to workers who lost jobs in the process. But 1994 brought a blunt reminder that when we fail to subdue inflation, the Federal Reserve will step in; and its favorite weapon, higher interest rates, will surely cost jobs in the long run. Thus today's gain for consumers may be tomorrow's gain for workers (not to mention the fact that most consumers are workers...