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...scared. I didn't want to associate with Jews and Hindus," recalls Sana. "But we all became good friends." Swimming in the lake and talking around the campfire late at night, they found that the anger they had brought with them from the war zones seemed to melt away. When she returned home, not many of her classmates sympathized with her change of heart. In Pakistan, Jews and Hindus were supposed to be the enemy. On Sept. 12, it was even worse: Sana still believed in peace, but few others in her school did. "They'd grab...
...players in this biochemical balancing act could for years only be guessed at. The first big breakthrough occurred in 1995, when the Rockefeller's Friedman stunned the scientific world by announcing that he and his colleagues had discovered a hormone produced by fat cells that actually caused fat to melt away, at least in laboratory mice. Genetically engineered mice that lacked the gene for making this hormone developed ravenous appetites and became grossly obese. When these same mice were injected with the missing hormone, they shrugged off a third of the weight they had gained. The researchers dubbed...
...Omen If the Arctic ice pack continues to melt at the current rapid rate, a northwest passage allowing ship traffic between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans could open up within 10 years, scientists...
Antarctic warming Since 1945 the Antarctic Peninsula has experienced a warming of about 4.5[degrees]F (2.5[degrees]C). The annual melt season has increased by 2 to 3 weeks in just the past 20 years...
...laudable efforts to adopt free-market reforms. A Brazilian default could upset the tenuous U.S. recovery and cost U.S. Republicans in November's congressional elections. That vote also coincides with the start of new negotiations for a giant hemispheric free-trade pact. If Brazil's economy continues to melt down, those talks will implode, causing Bush political embarrassment...