Word: rome
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...Vegas is a metaphor for the future of the U.S. [July 26]. Excess freedom when mixed with excess wealth has its disadvantages. Perhaps Sin City might eventually spin into a larger whirlpool and create a Sin Country. History has its lessons: Rome had its Colosseum; America has its Las Vegas. KADIRI FATAH Otta, Nigeria...
SETTLED. A class action against RAY MARSH, operator of the Tri-State Crematory in rural Georgia, where the uncremated remains of 334 people were found in storage buildings and surrounding forests in 2002; for $80 million; in Rome, Ga. Marsh, 31, faces an October trial on 787 criminal charges...
...Researchers in St. Louis, Missouri, and Rome, Italy, conducted extensive tests on 15 obese women before and three months after they underwent liposuction. "We removed 20 to 22 lbs. [9 to 10 kg] of fat from each patient," says Dr. Samuel Klein, director of the Center for Human Nutrition at Washington University in St. Louis. That's twice as much fat as is usually removed. The women were instructed not to diet or exercise more until the experiment was over. All reported that they felt better and could move more easily after surgery. But with respect to their metabolic risk...
...there was such disappointment with the news, reported recently in the New England Journal of Medicine, that unlike losing weight the old-fashioned way - by eating less and moving more - liposuction makes no difference in a person's biological risk factors. Researchers in St. Louis, Missouri, and Rome, Italy, conducted extensive tests on 15 obese women before and three months after they underwent liposuction. "We removed 20 to 22 lbs. [9 to 10 kg] of fat from each patient," says Dr. Samuel Klein, director of the Center for Human Nutrition at Washington University in St. Louis. That's twice...
...muscle and can have harmful effects on the heart. That hasn't stopped some athletes from trying it. "I'm convinced that some athletes are using a combination of IGF-1 and human growth hormone," says Nadia Rosenthal, an IGF-1 researcher at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Rome. The theory behind the combo is that human growth hormone signals the liver to secrete more IGF-1, keeping blood levels high. "These athletes know a little bit about how [the hormones] work, and for them, a millisecond could be the difference between gold or nothing," she says. What they...