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...rather, they use ATP, another chemical produced by mitochondria.) Adults with appreciable amounts of brown fat are usually those who have certain types of cancer or hyperthyroidism, conditions that stimulate the growth of brown fat. (Read an article about how kids who lack self-control are more likely to gain weight...
...after the investment bank’s collapse. JPMorgan also accepted $25 billion from the Troubled Asset Relief Program last October. Second-year MBA student Mahshid Pirzadeh said students were looking forward to hearing what Wall Street firms are doing right. “It will be interesting to gain his perspective on future changes in financial markets,” Pirzadeh said. “He will be more serious than some [speakers] in the past, but that’s a function of the economy.” An active alumnus, Dimon received his MBA from...
...Polo Club quite far in just its first formal year of activity. “The Great Leap Forward,” Crocker calls this past season—presumably excepting the famine and millions of deaths that followed the Maoist version. After nearly a century of failing to gain a foothold at Harvard, the club has been able to practice with its own horses in its own practice facility this past season, generating the first official women’s team and a threefold increase in the number of players in just a year...
Unless reading The Jungle was a particularly uplifting experience, FlyBy would caution students against, ahem, partaking in this opportunity. As Anna M. Yeung ’12 puts it, “I have nothing to gain. I would probably just lose my appetite...
...Obama's nomination of Groves to head the Census Bureau and oversee next year's national head count has sent Republicans scrambling to the ramparts. "With the nomination of Robert Groves, President Obama has made clear that he intends to employ the political manipulation of census data for partisan gain," North Carolina Congressman Patrick McHenry cautioned. Other lawmakers called Groves an "incredibly troubling selection" who must be watched for "statistical sleight of hand...