Word: priore
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...movie 25th Hour, due Dec. 20, was one of the first shot in New York City after Sept. 11. The story, about a criminal on his last night of freedom before prison, was written prior to the attacks, but Lee says he worked the aftermath into the film. "We definitely wanted to make it apparent that the film takes place in a post-9/11 New York City," he says. "I couldn't have that amnesia...
Likewise, the components of our diet have undergone a radical change. The flesh of the wild game that made up our ancestors' diet had just 3% to 4% fat, whereas prime beef has 30% or more. And prior to the domestication of crops such as wheat and corn, humans consumed a variety of wild grains filled with fiber, which slows digestion. The process of highly refining foods, which allows carbohydrates to be quickly absorbed by the digestive system, wasn't widespread. As Rutgers University anthropologist Lionel Tiger puts it, human metabolism "did not evolve for prime beef, but, one would...
...INDICTED. Seattle-based Islamic activist JAMES UJAAMA, 36, for conspiring to recruit, train and provide facilities for al-Qaeda terrorists in the United States; by a federal grand jury in Seattle. Ujaama, who denies any wrongdoing, has alleged that the U.S. government "knew about the events of Sept. 11 prior to the attack on New York, and refused to intervene in lieu of economic and political gains." He is in federal custody at an undisclosed location...
...scientific name for this remarkable substance is PYY3-36, or PYY for short, but the researchers who discovered its new function have dubbed it, appropriately enough, the fullness hormone. "If you give it prior to a meal, it switches off the appetite," says Dr. Stephen Bloom, an endocrinologist at Hammersmith Hospital in London. "PYY is what makes you less hungry after a meal...
...progressing well after a 50-member team at Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA worked around the clock to separate the shared skull and untangle the blood vessels that connected them. Born to Alba Leticia Alvarez, 23, and Wenceslao Quiej Lopez, 21, a banana packer, the girls, whose development prior to the surgery was normal, have been given a good chance of survival...