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...justified criticism of China is its lack of workers' rights, which contributes to its cheap labor. In the southern boomtown of Shenzhen, a hundred workers who package computer keyboards and mice that they say bear the IBM logo walked off the job last week to demand the legal minimum wage of $73 a month and the legal overtime rate of 66¢ an hour instead of the 34¢ they received. Since independent unions are banned, they took their protest directly to the government, spending a night outside city hall. The next day their employer, a Hong Kong firm called Max Infosystems...
...being overweight. Many obese people are not insulin resistant, and not everyone who is insulin resistant is overweight. Researchers at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif., believe that at least part of the answer lies not in the pancreas but in the liver. In a study of mice published in the Nov. 13 issue of Nature, scientists identified a protein that tells the liver to favor the metabolism of fat over that of glucose. The result is a buildup of glucose levels in the blood, a hallmark of insulin resistance...
...compounds are first screened in nonanimal tests, then on rodents, then on dogs, pigs or monkeys. None is for use in cosmetic products. While much of the vivisection debate focuses on dogs, cats and monkeys - animals that are either popular human companions or more like us than fish and mice - British statistics for 2002 show that dogs, cats, horses and nonhuman primates were collectively used in less than 1% of the 2.73 million new scientific procedures carried out in the country. The number of new procedures was up by 100,000 - 4.2% - over 2001, and an overwhelming 84% of them...
...internecine squabble within the household of Ampliatus, one of Pompeii's plutocrats, which brings him into contact with Ampliatus' sexy daughter and leads him to the mystery of his predecessor's sudden disappearance. Harris has a field day with the debauched goings-on at Ampliatus'--the menu includes honeyed mice, parrot tongues, a sow's udder stuffed with kidneys (with the sow's vulva on the side) and a moray eel fattened on human flesh...
Last April the community agreed to support the Biological Research Infrastructure, a 75,000-foot underground structure that will house laboratory mice...