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...second largest mall, 30% bigger than Minnesota's famed Mall of America, once the largest. Golden Resources accommodates more than 1,000 shops, dozens of restaurants, 230 escalators and an ice-skating rink. On its five floors, you can buy everything from fur coats to exercise equipment to pet supplies...
...Refined Taste TIME asked, "Can an audience love a Rat?" [June 18]. What a question! Millions of pet-rat lovers around the globe (including me) will turn out in droves to watch Ratatouille's Remy turn his dream of being a gourmet chef into reality. Pet rats (and their wilder cousins, of course) are simply amazing. Cute, adorable, clever, mischievous - you name it, they've got it, all rolled into one amazing personality. Cheers, Remy. We love you! Rina van Coller, PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA...
TIME asked, "Can An Audience Love A Rat?" [June 18]. What a question! Millions of pet-rat lovers around the globe (including me) will turn out in droves to watch Ratatouille's Remy turn his dream of being a gourmet chef into reality. Pet rats (and their wilder cousins of course) are simply amazing. Cute, adorable, clever, mischievous--you name it, they've got it, all rolled into one amazing personality. Cheers, Remy. We love...
...know now, for example, that the 20% success rate can shoot up to 40% if treatment is ongoing (very much the AA model, which is most effective when members continue to attend meetings long after their last drink). Armed with an array of increasingly sophisticated technology, including fMRIs and PET scans, investigators have begun to figure out exactly what goes wrong in the brain of an addict--which neurotransmitting chemicals are out of balance and what regions of the brain are affected. They are developing a more detailed understanding of how deeply and completely addiction can affect the brain...
...brain, not the gut, that continues to get most of the attention, and one of the biggest reasons is technology. It was in 1985 that Volkow first began using PET scans to record trademark characteristics in the brains and nerve cells of chronic drug abusers, including blood flow, dopamine levels and glucose metabolism--a measure of how much energy is being used and where (and therefore a stand-in for figuring out which cells are at work). After the subjects had been abstinent a year, Volkow rescanned their brains and found that they had begun to return to their predrug...