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...break out the cartons of Ben & Jerry's just yet. For one thing, the research reported in Nature last week was just a modest first step. A dozen volunteers in London were injected at various times with either the hormone or a placebo. Then they were led to an Indian-food buffet and invited to pack away all they could eat. Result: while on PYY, the grazers voluntarily consumed one-third fewer calories...
...their own bedrooms, bathrooms and phone lines. They share all the common areas. They buy their own food and rarely eat together. For Wilma Grove, 69, Rensch's newest housemate, the arrangement lets her be near her grown children yet still live on her fixed income. She pays about one-third of what one-bedroom apartments go for in the area...
...Chances are,” Glickman said, picking up a bag of potato chips provided for the event, “these were made from genetically engineered plants, since one-third of the corn and two-thirds of the soybeans in the country are grown from genetically engineered seeds...
...single biggest factor for the rise in residential real estate has been mortgage rates at 35-year lows, Hassett asserts. Low rates keep housing affordable despite hefty price increases. He hastens to add, though, that "no bubble" and "no vulnerability" are not the same thing. If mortgage rates jump one-third, "all bets are off" and house prices would be likely to fall...
...clean three-bedroom apartment in a new cluster of town houses within sight of the remaining condemned Cabrini towers. When the town houses are complete, the income mix will be divided this way: 50% of the population will pay the full market rate; 20% will pay up to one-third of their monthly income; and 30% will be former public-housing tenants who also will pay no more than one-third of their income. Harper, who was laid off from her job as a temp at the post office six months ago and is now looking for work, pays...