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...Karadzic knows he can get a good deal. Both the earlier deals were much softer than what the United Nations had planned," TIME U.N. correspondent Bonnie Angelo says. But the entry of Carter into the Bosnian conflict has thrown mediators -- working for months to resolve the conflict -- for a loop. NATO Secretary-General Willy Claes quickly expressed outrage, but it's the U.N. that has received the biggest slight in the effort, Angelo says. U.N. officials tell Angelo that Yasushi Akashi, U.N. chief of Yugoslavian activities, had met with Karadzic just the night before he made his offer public...
Other versions of the rumor are more outlandish, claiming that an infected machine will be sent into an "nth-complexity infinite binary loop" which is supposed to be so complex that the computer's central processing unit (CPU) will be "severely damaged...
...staff's desire to attack "free-loaders" who exploit the loop-holes of rent control, it ignores the fact that elderly residents, artists and students (including me) depend on rent control for their housing in Cambridge...
...they have isolated the first gene that clearly participates in the normal process of regulating weight, though genetics remains one of several factors involved.TIME medical writer Christine Gormansays the discovery, through "top-drawer" research, is the first hard evidence to support a decades-old hypothesis that a "feedback loop" between body and brain regulates weight. In the case of many obese people, she says, the new findings suggest a protein is sending the wrong signal, resulting in lower metabolism and excessive hunger. "The implications for the moment are more psychological than medical or therapeutic," Gorman says. "We don't know...
...move off-campus, coupled with the re-emergence of fraternities and sororities, has some undergraduates feeling out of the loop...