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...hormones leptin and insulin are longer-term signals. Produced by fat cells, leptin helps manage just how much fat you store around your organs and under your skin through a complex feedback loop. If your fat deposits start to shrink--for example, when you lose weight--the amount of leptin in your body falls, a situation that the brain interprets as a result of starvation. The whole system of chemicals and neurological impulses shifts in an attempt to get the body to burn fewer calories so that it can regain the weight. The greater the weight loss, the stronger...
...have pumped $339 billion into start-ups; these companies have created 10.1 million jobs and collected $1.8 trillion in sales. But stars tend to flame out as quickly as they ignite. By the time the Internet-bubble burst, "vulture capitalists" were tainted as part of the lunatic feedback loop that sent valuations of newly public companies into the stratosphere. After three years of retrenchment, the community of some 900 U.S. investment firms is eager to lend a hand to what it hopes will be the next generation of giants...
...already been working closely with me over the years and has been far more in the loop concerning PBH, the department, than has PBHA. This was one situation we wished to correct,” Kidd wrote in an e-mail...
...leak but also made his staff let the Pentagon know it was coming. Others in the White House said the maneuver had an additional purpose: it was a presidential shot sent across the Potomac to the Pentagon, where officials were insisting the White House had been kept in the loop about the abuse investigation. "If we hadn't done that, the Pentagon would have said, 'We told the White House; the White House knew,'" says a senior White House official...
...army of bureaucrats was there to give the Treasurer the correct numbers. If Oppositions are accused of holding back on policy detail, one reason could be that federal governments can call on some 130,000 public servants to mull over those programs. As well, being out of the loop on intelligence and defense has made it difficult for Latham to appear knowledgeable about national security...