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...opposed to the more familiar white fat that hangs over belt buckles and swings from the backs of arms), and a series of papers published in the New England Journal of Medicine confirm for the first time that healthy adults have stores of this adipose tissue, which researchers hope to study further as a potential new weight-loss treatment...
...Action Movement, spoke during the public comment portion of the meeting. “As students who live and go to school at Harvard, we know that workers are as much a part of our community as faculty and administrators,” she said. “We hope that the Council will join students in putting pressure on Harvard to stop laying off workers and keep our community together.” Bedardo Sola, a janitor who was recently reinstated at the University, said through his translator that he now understands what it is like to be enslaved...
...require any walls to be knocked down. Moreover, if such bureaucratic adjustments are made before the Houses are renewed, it will make the transition process from old House to new House more stable. Redesigning the House life experience should not be artificially confined by a building schedule. We hope to see the report’s suggestions put in place as quickly as possible in order to maximize the benefits of this admirable piece of student-administration collaboration...
...succeed in toppling the government. "Thaksin wants to provoke violence so that everyone will say it's the fault of the 'evil military' and that he is the 'champion of democracy,'" says Kraisak Choonhavan, a member of the ruling Democrat Party and a former senator. "It's his only hope of bringing down the government...
Attention, however, is still focused on the human toll. As the deaths climbed to at least 260, hope began to dwindle on Tuesday evening of finding additional survivors under the rubble. The previous night, just past 2 a.m., a university student identified as Marta was pulled alive from her collapsed dormitory after 23 hours, her life saved only because a fallen ceiling support had wedged across her bed in a position that protected her from all the other debris that came down. (See pictures of the earthquake...