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...appears, are programmed by their genes to store fat instead of burn it. Scientists speculate that this ability may be a vestige of early human history, when those who could live off their fat reserves were more likely to survive droughts and famines. The bodies of such individuals actively resist every effort to slim down. Below a certain weight, their metabolism slows in order to allow fat to accumulate, but their appetites remain undiminished. Once body weight rises to a certain point, the metabolism seems to speed up, so that they maintain that weight without gaining any more. But, researchers...
...Community Building Corporation, Inc., representing several non-profit organizations including Greenpeace, Resist and the Haymarket People's Fund, and the city-sponsored group, the Cambridge Enterprise Collaborative, both hoped to buy the gym when the parish offered it for sale, he said...
...Hampshire, Dole humiliated a student who was asking him about South African sanctions. There's also little sign that Dole can be gracious in defeat. As he sat watching those red-white-and-blue hats piling up on the NBC delegate tote board last Tuesday night, he could not resist snapping at the Vice President for "lying...
...urged Swaggart "to resist the urgings of those outside the church to respond to questions" and called on church members "to refrain from speculation and imagination about this matter...
...when we offered Kinsley a chance to write for TIME, he could not resist. "After a decade of writing for a magazine with a circulation of 100,000," he says, "a magazine of close to 5 million looks pretty tempting." The pieces he will pen for TIME each year will appear in the Essay section, though Kinsley does not describe himself as an essayist. Once, while criticizing Financial Expert Felix Rohatyn, Kinsley wrote that one "laughably easy" way to earn a reputation as a philosopher is to "refer to your own writings as 'essays,' not articles." Says Kinsley: "I write...