Word: loops
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...blood factor that makes fat mice thin. But they are still trying to puzzle out just how it works. Friedman, for one, believes leptin is almost certainly a hormone that travels through the bloodstream to act on the brain. In fact, it appears leptin may act in a feedback loop like the temperature sensor in a thermostat--or in this case a "fatstat"--to tell the body whether to turn metabolism and appetite up or down. Thus when leptin is low, hunger pangs increase, body temperature drops, and metabolism slows. When leptin is high, everything reverses. In such fashion...
...unplugged walk-in refrigerator in a bagel deli and showered at a YMCA across the street. Carney followed Sununu into Bush's '88 campaign and then served as the White House political director. The pinball machine in his office kept people coming by -- "and helped keep me in the loop," Carney concedes. "He's temperamental and a bit nuts," says Andy Card, who was Bush's Transportation Secretary, "but he defines action. He gets things done." After Bush's '92 loss to Clinton, which Carney says he has "almost completely repressed," he was instrumental in the G.O.P.'s brilliant...
...juice that cost nearly $7 a quart at the going exchange rate, some four times as much as a similar bottle would sell for back home. A large box of Cheerios cost more than $12. But it was the meat counter, she says, that "really threw me for a loop." There she discovered roast beef for about $16 a quarter-pound. That made McBain wonder whether her husband, an advertising executive, should uproot their family and accept an offer from his company to transfer to Japan...
...lifestyles of the previous generation. This pattern is not unique to hiring; it is ubiquitious among family relationships, friendship groups and casual acquaintances. People find common ground with others reassuring. It is a natural tendency, but one which is exclusive and disenfranchising for those kept out of the loop...
Jesus' Blood made its impact by repeating, for nearly an hour, a phrase of a hymn tune sung by an old man on a London street and recorded by a TV crew filming a documentary on derelicts. Bryars devised a kaleidoscopic accompaniment for the man's a cappella tape loop, slowly shifting and swelling the instrumentation and finally bringing on Tom Waits near the end to sing a raw, urgent posthumous duet...