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...bugs than thin ones. The gut microbiota of obese mice has been shown to have significantly more of one main type of bacteria called Firmicutes and fewer of another kind called Bacteroidetes (both types populate human guts as well); in normal mice, the distribution is the opposite. Jeffrey Gordon at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., who conducted the previous research, experimented again with mice for the new paper. This time, however, he and his team used human microbiota to colonize mouse guts and then fed the rodents the equivalents of typical human diets to see how their microbes...
...given time, there are some 4,000 residents living in 15 floors of apartments and 10,000 others passing through the complex's restaurants and dimly lit bazaar, which sells everything from saffron to sex to cell phones. And there are a lot of cell phones. Gordon Mathews, an anthropology professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong who has written extensively about Chungking Mansions, estimates that about 15% of sub-Saharan Africa's handsets - or more than 10 million units - flow through the building each year. Mathews has counted 129 different nationalities that have stayed in the building over...
Seated behind bulletproof glass and flanked by medics on the second day of his current trial on Nov. 2, Boere still appeared ready to fight. Defense attorney Gordon Christiansen filed a motion for the trial to be abandoned on the grounds that Boere was already convicted in 1949 and E.U. rules prohibit people from being tried for the same crime twice. "This is a formal procedure," says Christiansen. "The court has to rule...
Winters took to the air, with a 33-yard pass to sophomore Adam Chrissis—the highlight of the 79-yard drive. But once inside the 10, it was Gordon who brought the ball into the endzone nearly untouched...
Harvard would tack on another 10 points—seven on a three-yard Gordon run in the third, and three on a 29-yard Long field goal in the fourth—before allowing the Lions across midfield for the third time...