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...first wisps of the monsoon finally doused the extreme heat on the subcontinent late last week, allowing the masses to return to a semblance of a normal life. It will be a month before the full monsoon and its cooling rains sweep into Pakistan, however, leaving extremists plenty of idle time to plot revenge against India and ratchet up the pressure on their President...
...bright spots. Accounting firms and the U.S. government are recruiting more graduates than they did last year. But those employment gains are offset by other sectors like the consulting industry, which is predicting it will hire 90% fewer college graduates this year. "We're now recruiting at more normal levels after a period of unusual growth," says a spokesman at McKinsey...
This is one of the mysteries of anxiety. While it is a normal response to physical danger--and can be a useful tool for focusing the mind when there's a deadline looming--anxiety becomes a problem when it persists too long beyond the immediate threat. Sometimes there's an obvious cause, as with the shell-shocked soldiers of World War I or the terror-scarred civilians of the World Trade Center collapse. Other times, we don't know why we can't stop worrying...
...studying brain-damaged patients can teach scientists only so much. They would also like to know how anxiety works in normal, intact brains. For this, brain scans have proved invaluable...
Frisch says a successful pregnancy takes about 50,000 calories more than normal metabolic requirements. If the body does not have the necessary calories, the brain restricts the flow of leptin and switches off the ability to reproduce...