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...state legislature convened last week. The new speaker, San Antonio Republican Joe Straus, is a moderate scion of an old Republican family with ties going back to John Tower and George H.W. Bush. The Straus victory is evidence of a shift in the GOP power base as urban voters gain a larger voice. Royal Masset, a longtime Texas Republican analyst, says the GOP will continue to fare well in Texas, but he sees a new polarity in the state as the old conservative/liberal labels often used to define Texas politics give way to the emerging urban/rural dichotomy...
Chrysler, in turn, will gain access to Fiat's latest products and technology, including Fiat's nifty little city car, the Fiat 500. The deal raised morale at Chrysler's headquarters and technical centers in Auburn Hills, which had been hit hard by layoffs since September. "I think everyone felt a lot better," said one senior Chrysler official...
...Obama pushes to move the measure to the right to gain more GOP support, he risks losing the Democrats who feel he has already given away too much in proposed tax cuts to win over Republicans. And if he moves to curtail the more open process he prefers and instead force the bill through over GOP objections, Obama could be accused of going against the bipartisan spirit he promised to foster in the nation's capital. In other words, Obama may quickly find himself forced to choose between betraying his party and betraying his principles. (See pictures of the best...
...hardly a secret that men and women gain weight, lose weight and think about weight entirely differently. It's also not news that body-fat percentage alone - with females naturally carrying an extra ladling of adipose tissue - gives males a head start in the slimming game. But a new study from Brookhaven National Laboratory looked deeper into the primal ways in which we react to the very presence of food - and if you like to eat, this is not a study you would have wanted any part of. (See the Year in Medicine...
...person's ability to extract energy and store fat from food changes depending on which combination of bugs are living in the gut. Those who are morbidly obese, it seems, tend to nurture bugs that promote the fat-storage process, which might be a factor in their excessive weight gain. The bypass patients appeared to follow a similar pattern but in the opposite direction, eating less first and then developing bugs appropriate to that diet. It's not clear how the physical act of reducing food intake drives that change, nor how long-lasting the possible slimming effects...