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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...
...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...
...ROME Goody Music is Rome's best-stocked venue for vinyl. Hidden away behind the central Piazzale Flaminio on Via Cesare Beccaria, the store has catered to vinyl fiends for over 25 years. The shop deals mainly in house, hip-hop and soul, and twice a week hosts a DJ school where wannabe mixmasters can learn their cuts. "Somebody walks in here, and when he leaves he can do a rave for 20,000 people," boasts owner Claudio Donato...